Australia Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

There's something about Australia that feels prehistoric.

— Carrie Coon

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

— Harold Edward Holt

“Coral, my love, you are too pure, too innocent, too alive for me,” he said slowly, almost carefully. “My world is like a drawing…

— Hannah Fielding

“The settlers of Australia, or more accurately, its conquerors, didn’t just adapt, they transformed the Australian ecosystem beyond recognition.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“they were looking for housekeepers and cooks, and I was dying to get out of Australia and see the rest of the world. It's…

— Roxanne St. Claire

“You were, are cactus tourism. meeting you: granular fractals borrowed from oceans.”

— Virginia Petrucci

“Our creaturely existence is registered, measured, discussed, and represented in increasingly abstract terms. Maybe this helps explain how someone like me, who should know…

— Tim Winton

“There was one thing no one considered, however: Australia was populated by Australians. While the rest of us were trying to adapt to a…

— Mira Grant

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking…

— Kevin Rudd

“There shall be corals in your beds, There shall be serpents in your tides, Till all our sea-faiths die.”

— Dylan Thomas

I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other…

— David Gerrold

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

— Arthur Boyd