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  • A New Desert : Trekking in the Simpson The Online Monthly - subscriber only access

    Robyn Davidson | November 2008 | The Monthly Essays | Environment
    For Indigenous people, who knew it as well as their own bodies (in a sense, their country was both body and mind), it was a large garden that sustained them for thousands of generations. Withholding sometimes, when the dry went on longer than usual, but generally so bountiful that they could gather...

  • The Wanderer

    Robyn Davidson | The Nation Reviewed | August 2008 | Society & Culture
    "‘So what of this notion of exile?'‘No,' he says, ‘exile is too pretty a word. Can you reframe that?'‘Homelessness?'‘No, that's wrong - because I have a home.'‘Metaphorically speaking, I meant.'‘No. It's very simple. It's not exile; it's more to do with...

  • Living: In the Age of Noise

    Robyn Davidson | The Monthly Essays | June 2008 | Society & Culture
    Opinions are antagonistic to wisdom, even when they're right, which they seldom are. People cling to their opinions until history proves those opinions catastrophically wrong, but isn't it amusing that even when their opinions have been proved wrong, time and time and time again, they still...

  • Organic Matter

    Robyn Davidson | The Nation Reviewed | May 2008 | Society & Culture
    One of the great things about getting older is that all the anxieties you once had about death and decline (and some of us have had them daily since we first grasped the fact of mortality) are anxieties no longer. You are liberated from them because they have become real. Friends fall off perches...

  • SlowTV: Robyn Davidson, Adelaide Writers' Week, March 2008 - part two

    Robyn Davidson | Adelaide | Literature | Public event
    Robyn Davidson, Adelaide Writers' Week, March 2008 - part two
    Robyn Davidson discusses and reads from an as-yet-unpublished memoir in this Meet the Author session from Adelaide Writers' Week.(Part 2 of 2)... » play video

  • SlowTV: Robyn Davidson, Adelaide Writers' Week

    Robyn Davidson | Adelaide | Literature | Public event | Video | Culture
    Robyn Davidson, Adelaide Writers' Week
    Robyn Davidson discusses and reads from an as-yet-unpublished memoir in this Meet the Author session from Adelaide Writers' Week.(Part 1 of 2) Click here for Part 2... » play video

  • Toots's Kismet: How Do Creatures Think? The Online Monthly - subscriber only access

    Robyn Davidson | The Monthly Essays | Dec 2007 - Jan 2008 | Environment | Society & Culture
    As I do. And have always done.I have studied them in the wild, worked with them, shared my homes with them. Though ‘pets' seems too diminished a term to give to those aliens who have, throughout my life, kept me company, amused me, amazed me. Dogs, cats, parrots, ravens ... they have reconnected me...

  • Eco-Worriers: Michael Pollan’s ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’ & Bill McKibben’s ‘Deep Economy’

    Robyn Davidson | Books | November 2007 | Environment
    It would be interesting to know how many trees and how much oil (petrol for the delivery of, aviation fuel for the author promotion of, ink for the printing of, machines for shredding the remainders of), have gone into the plethora of books bringing us the bad eco-news in the decades since Silent...

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