Robyn Davidson Quotes

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.

I've always loved the desert. I've spent most of my life in the Southwest. It's certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young.

The fishing is a great relief for me. When I'm out there's no cell phone ringing. I'm out there fishing with bears. I'm in the middle of God's country catching tons of fish. I just absolutely love it.

I've always been fascinated by the desert.

I love nature.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.

I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often.

I love the woods even more than the ocean.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.

A real liberty is found in the country, apart from all its political theory. The practical liberty of America is found in its great space and small population.

Nature is where my heart is.