Charles Sturt Quotes

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

It's more of an adventure when you set off into unknown territory, and there's nothing like that feeling you get when you discover a place on the Earth where no one has ever been.

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

Adventure has to do with private, personal experiences. But, the possibilities, there are millions of unclimbed mountains - I have seen in the Eastern part of Tibet, mountains 6,000-6,500 meters high, vertical walls twice as tall as the Eiger... but nobody is going there, because they aren't 8,000-meter peaks.

I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

I thought 'I Am Legend' did a really great job of it, and 'Omega Man,' that concept of an empty world.

It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.

I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived.

Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to.

No matter where I go, I always feel unwanted eyes following me. It's a dirty world out there.

I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.

When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.

A person can't just drive around the North Slope, visit the locals, stop in at a burger joint. There are no locals, no burger joints, no houses, no cities, no churches.

I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on earth.

Everyone on 'The Apprentice' hates each other. They put you in a room, and they don't give you anything to do. They leave you there for 10 hours... they don't give you any food or water, and you start getting angry and arguing with each other.

When I was a kid growing up, I lived in a little rural village called Woolton Hill, and the nearest town was Newbury. No bands played anywhere near us, so as much as I wanted to be on the grid and in the loop, I never was.

The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew, to kill me, violent enough to break me apart. The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand. The farther I went, the more desolate it became, more than any place I'd been, but for this very reason the landscape drew me, claimed me as nothing had in a long time.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

I love all waste and solitary places.

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.