'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the ….

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity..

Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmi….

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to….

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

A journey is a fragment of Hell..

Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber..

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

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

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….

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.….

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

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….

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. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The mig….

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence..

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..