Australia Quote by Charles Sturt

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers…

— Ambrose Bierce

“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

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger…

— Jeff Goodell

I have a really shallow idea about what Australia is.

— Michael Bierut

It's hard to get your head around the scale of Australia.

— John Torode

As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day…

— Douglas Pearce

There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia,…

— Shaun Tan

There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

— Henry Rollins

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

— Thomas Paine

Australia is the most isolated continent.

— Jared Diamond

Britain is not an island... well, yes it is, but...

— Anonymous

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

— Lee Hsien Loong