Wilfred Thesiger Quotes

The harder the life, the finer the person.

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full

The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks.