"The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people."

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Source : Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.24, The Miegunyah Press

Richard Allen

#Blue Quotes #Sky Quotes #White Quotes

“When the woman took the earbud, he didn't ask another question. She was a woman on a mission as she placed the tiny device in her ear and said, "This is Special Agent Abby Cameron. Let me talk to Macey McHenry.”
“Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?”
“Society has to take the glory out of guns. Young people have no business carrying a gun. I would love to speak bluntly to those gangbanging teens and wanna-bes and tell them prison is nothing like what you think. If youâ€™re packing a gun, youâ€™re making a big mistake, and youâ€™ll regret it.”
“Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn't put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there's balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do.”
“Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.”

Source : "Gavyn Davies does the maths". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.
“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
“All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.”
“I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.”

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