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“Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.” quote by Tim Winton — Download Open image

““Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.””

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Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

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“Where I had expected to appreciate the monuments and love the natural environment, the reality was entirely the reverse. The immense beauty of many buildings and landscapes had an immediate and visceral impact, and yet in the natural world, where I am generally most comfortable, I was hesitant. While I was duly impressed by what I saw, I could never…

I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go along. I did both in different forms of isolation - too young by conventional standards, too far off-grid culturally and geographically. So my experience is probably too specific to be useful. None of us do this stuff the…

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

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The end of the world begins in the sea we love.

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“Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life…

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“Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.”

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“Keep the day ahead of you, that's what the old man used to say.”

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I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now.…

Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking about for one day, one clear, clean, sweet day in a good world in the midst of our living. Yachts run before an unfelt gust with bagnecked pelicans riding above them, the city their twitching…

The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury…

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I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could say I'm from the Redneck Wing of marine conservation. Everything I know about the sea I learnt at the end of a spear or a hook. Seems weird to admit it, but I hunted and killed…

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I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in…

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

I wanted to have a peaceful married life with my wife, so we both moved to Sydney in Australia.

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It will be nice to play against Australia. It's a great country, and football is getting bigger and bigger.

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I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for…

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No matter what day we celebrate Australia Day, let's celebrate it together and give thanks to the original inhabitants of this vast country. We…

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As a young kid you stay up late to watch the Ashes, getting told off for not being in bed, and dream of making…

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Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world... The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets it. Scientifically they get it, politically they get it and particularly when it comes to the United Nations, they get it. They are pulling out of this, they are repealing their carbon tax and Canada seems to be…

I want to be part of the team that wins a Test series in England and Australia.

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I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.

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Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the…

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I try to get back to Australia as much as possible.

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