Bruce Chatwin citáty

„Slovo „Patagonie“ se v západní fantazii prosadilo jako metafora extrému, bodu, který už nejde překonat.“

“To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.”

“Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.”

“Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.”

“I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.”

“Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land."”