Bruce Chatwin Quotes

The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by f...

Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder.

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form th...

A journey is a fragment of Hell.

If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive t...

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife j...

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting an...

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.