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In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today.
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During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve.
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Solve
Thousand
Thousand Years
Unprecedented
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That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.
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Home
Ideas
Odd
Voice
Describe
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When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.
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Be Prepared
Linked
Prepared
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You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.
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Australian
Time World Remember
Australians
Discover
Fifties
Imperative
Sixties
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The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.
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Changed
Earth
Fate
Foundation
Global Economy
Humanity
Remains
Revolution
Subsistence
Transformed
Agricultural
Entirely
Global
Mode
Produced
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People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people.
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Boundaries
Hoarding
Wander
People Who Because
Negotiate
Nicer
Possessions
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The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
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Life
Motivational
Success
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It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just find it fascinating. I just love that collaborative film family that develops around a project.
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Fascinating
Love Family Always
Develops
Sets
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The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
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Decision
Endeavor
Important
Important Things
Powerful
Strong
Two
Most
Yourself
Allow
Any
Did
Were
Part
First
First Step
Learn
Making
Step
Taking
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If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back.
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Going Away
Tested
Ulysses
Don Quixote
Enduring
Journeys
Quest
Quixote
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The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts of questions of society, of life and of themselves. They were very politicised. It was part of the air that we breathed.
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Air
People
Thinking
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Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.
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Journey
Decline
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I hate hats! Hats just give you really bad hair! I had a hat sometimes. Frankly, you get burnt so much anyway, it's beside the point. And when you're walking into the western sun, no hat in the world is going to save your face and neck from being sizzled.
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Giving
Hair
Hate
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By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.
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Clothes
Naked
Skins
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That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.
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Confidence
Beaten
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Ignorant
Pieces
Stuff
Whole
Youth
Things
Person
Lot
Then
Get
Around
Does
End
Those
Through
Full
Doubts
Making
Smashed
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In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.
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Religion
Buddhist
Godliness
Theme
Variation
Walking
Abandoning
Hindu
Exists
Pilgrims
Settled
Sins
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I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.
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Disregard
Foolish
Mad
Mobile
Nomadic
Return
Traditional
Derived
Destroy
Economies
Grand
Poetical
Systems
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The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.
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Learning
Allowing
Process
Trial And Error
Wander
Words
Mistakes
Idea
Part
French
Error
Sort
In Other Words
Word
Trial
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When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you ain't gonna like what I'm gonna do to your book.' I really liked him, but I turned him down, because - well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money.
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Conversation
Honey
Lunch
Sydney
Courted
Great Deal
Opened
Tracks
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Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it.
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Ocean
Australia
Australian
Coast
Empty
Handful
Harsh
Haunting
Indian
Motor
Sandy
Settlers
Western
Springs
Alice
Arid
Deserts
Dominated
Gibson
Largely
Region
Travelers
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There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.
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Dawn
Thinking
Track
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To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.
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Inspirational
Learning
Freedom
Struggle
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