I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god..

Anything was better than to be loved for one's things..

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with stri….

A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which ….

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking..

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin..

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe..

For life is a journey through a wilderness.

Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country:….

Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security..

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical..

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones..

And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling..

If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to u….

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The mig….

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind..

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.….

I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books….

A journey is a fragment of Hell..

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot..

Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber..