William Atkins > Quotes

“yet it quickly becomes apparent that, just as the desert is not silent, it is far from being still.”
― William Atkins, The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places

“dreams for the year, the fisherman”
― William Atkins, The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places

“I feel slightly astonished. Night after night, these eager young men climbing 400 metres and pressing themselves into a hole in the earth for hours at a time, and doing it with joy. They’re all but indistinguishable—save for their phones and trainers—from their predecessors of the past fifteen hundred years; and that is at the heart of their pleasure, of course. We”
― William Atkins, The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places

“You might travel to escape the self, but in the desert of all places, where there is little else, you are thrown back upon your mind and your body with intensified force.”
― William Atkins, The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places