The Nomadic Alternative – Page 70

THE NOMADIC ALTERNATIVE

I remember the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy espousals
when thou wentest after me in a land that was not sown.

Jeremiah 2:2

... the Bedouin ... will sing tunes to the camel that he can only
sing to the camel, because in his mind the tune and the camel are
the same thing.

E.M. Forster, Pharos and Pharillon

A pure nomad is a poor nomad.

Owen Lattimore, The Inner Asian Frontiers of China

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds
as herds are the keepers of men, the former are so much the freer.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The American intelligentsia has a deep sentimental attachment to
barbarism and slavery, preferably of a nomadic sort.

Floyd Dell

... and the nomads are hounds, God knoweth!

Charles Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta

I do not have a mill with willow trees
I have a horse and a whip
I will kill you and go.

Turkoman Proverb

The nomads, rendered apprehensive by the building operations kept
changing their encampments with incredible rapidity, like locusts,
and so perhaps had a better general view of the progress of the
wall than we, the builders.

Franz Kafka, The Great Wall of China