Nomadic Lifestyle Quotes

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.

I live in New York, but I'm gone 310, 320 days a year. My apartment is storage.

Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?

The plains are almost wholly uninhabitable by people depending upon agriculture.

I love living on the road; I live out of a suitcase.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

When my dad hit 40, he quit everything. He sold the house and bought the boat and went off sailing the world. I was on that boat from age 12 to 18. We didn't actually go around the world. We went pretty much from France through the whole Mediterranean basin. We went to Ireland first. We also went to coast of Africa, South America and the Caribbean.

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.

I've always been a gypsy.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

I'm a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

I thrive on that nomadic lifestyle.

Being on the road is like a campout. I'm the only girl. The guys in my band are like my big brothers. It's definitely an adventure, but it can be a nomadic lifestyle.

I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery.