”You don’t know Australia. Australia was invented for you by the news.’’ Alain de Botton, author of Religion for Atheists, speaking in Brisbane. ..
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”Naming things gives you some familiarity with it so it’s not just always strange and odd.’’ Associate Professor Darryl Jones, Griffith University ..
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”Each displacement serves as a reminder of those homes where one does not dwell at present.’’ Susan Ossman, Moving Matters: Paths of Serial ..
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”Every moment now made one sweat profusely, and once wet one’s clothes stayed wet for a long time.’’ Nevil Shute, In the Wet There is a ..
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Click Click. My chiropractor works away at my stiff neck. ”You know, you shouldn’t feel bad. A lot of Australians don’t know the names of trees ..
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”How can you understand the planet without walking upon it, sampling its marvels one by one, and then floating high above it, to see it all in a single ..
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“But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir Steep Trails On my last day at Varuna in the Blue Mountains, I am up ..
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This is an experiment, a study. It’s not grandiose. It’s not done with flow charts and decades of data. There is no power point presentation. Do I hear a ..
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I’m at war with the journalist inside me. Facts only, it shouts. No opinions, no personal anecdotes. But that’s the interesting stuff, I whisper back. ..
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