Quotes About Nomadic

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

Maar, lieve mensen, u zult toch een beetje moeten denken, dat geeft een hele steun. Het is immers duidelijk dat de hele geschiedenis der mensheid voor zover wij die kennen, de geschiedenis is van de overgang van nomadische levensvormen naar een al meer gezeten levenswijze. Volgt daar niet uit dat de meest gezeten levenswijze (de onze) tevens de meest volmaakte (de onze) is?

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

The food in central Asia is not so great: it tends to be horse.

The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!

The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde. We are reverting to the civilisation of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.

London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilisation which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that they once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!

A nomadic chicken was pacing across the street

Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents.

I'm an army kid with floating feet.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

THe Gnobi, when not roused to violence, were a sluggish clan, the least nomadic of Boarderland's tribes. Not sensing any immediate threat to their freedoms in the person of Jack Diamond, they had responded to his urgency with characteristic listessness. Myrval's tent is somewhere that way, one of them had said with a vauge wave of the hand. Follow the sound of the snoring and you'll find it, another had suggested.

Boaderland: Where women could be given away by their husbands to pay debts, and young, rowdy gallants from Wonderland, fresh from the rigors of formal education, came to indulge themselvs in roving pleasure tents; where maps were useless because the nation consisted wholly of nomadic camps, settlements, towns and cities, and a visitor might find the country's capital, Boarderton, situated in the cool sgadows of the Glyph Cliffs one day but spread out along Fortune Bay the next.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

One of the questions we need to ask, if we are to have a future, she says, is "Where did we cause less damage to ourselves, to our environment, and to our animal kin?" One answer is: when we were nomadic. "It is when we settled that we became strangers in a strange land, and wandering took on the quality of banishment.

Seljuk Turks in the east, Normans in the west, and in the north the latest nomadic groups

For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.

Our dwelling is but a wandering, and our abiding is but a fleeting, and in a word our home is nowhere.

Their space has absolutely nothing in common with that of a stage. When experts pretend that they can see here 'the beginnings of perspective', they are falling into a deep, anachronistic trap. Pictorial systems of perspective are architectural and urban – depending upon the window and the door. Nomadic 'perspective' is about coexistence, not about distance.

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).

It's not so bad to live out of a suitcase. It's a really beautiful life.