nomads Quotes

“In all her years of itinerant living, Mia had developed one rule: Don’t get attached to any place, to any apartment, to anything. To anyone.”

“Living in a paradise of magnificent meadows and forests abundant with wild game, berries, and nuts, the Utes were self-supporting and could have existed entirely without the provisions doled out to them by their agents at Los Pinos and White River.”

“They were people of the horse, not of the town; in that they were more like the Comanches than Call would ever have admitted.”

“Suddenly we had a home, a safe place to be, even a small bank account. It was a foreign feeling for the both of us but especially for me.”

“The foragers’ secret of success, which protected them from starvation and malnutrition, was their varied diet.”

“Giving up the nomadic lifestyle enabled women to have a child every year.”