Jane Gardam Quotes

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I'd love to go to a remote part of the world or maroon myself on a tropical island, and shoot the whole thing myself. I've always adventured with other people and I'd like to spend some time completely on my own.

I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

I just want pieces of the world.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

I now walk into the wild.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'