Quotes by : Bruce Chatwin

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

A journey is a fragment of Hell.

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and....

If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the....

The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.....

Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder.

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey....

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