I think sometimes it is better to use other people's words.... Here are two quotes that began a book I just started reading. I thought both of them fitting to include in Nomadism.
"Psychiatrists, politicians, tyrants are forever assuring us that the wandering life is an aberrant form of behavior; a neurosis; a form of unfulfilled sexual longing; a sickness which, in the interests of civilization, must be suppressed.... Yet, in the East, they still preserve the once universal concept; that wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe."
-Bruce Chatwin
"And so it now is that the Navajo people never abide in one dwelling.... Instead they migrate constantly from place to place, from place to place."
-from Dine Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story
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