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“Nature is our greatest teacher.”

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Edna Walling was a renowned Australian fashion designer in the early 20th century. Her unique design style was deeply influenced by Australian indigenous culture, leaving a profound impact on the Australian fashion industry. more

“The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves, and seem to melt like the bristles of a melting hairbrush. The hills turn powder-blue and gauzy. Mirages resembling pools of mica and shallows of crystal water appear at the far ends of streets and roads. Punctually at eleven every burning morning, the cicadas begin to drill the air, to drill themselves also, ceaselessly and relentlessly, to death in one short day after seven long years underground.”

Years Long Ends Seems Turns Water Nature Morning Air Streets Towns Blue Seven Wave Rings Miles Burning Hills Heat Pool Crystals Eleven Melting Drills Powder Gum Superb Mirages Cicadas Heat Wave

Author:Hal Porter

“How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?”

Knows Giving Real Might Nature Pride Needed Love For Her

Book:Born Free: The Story of Elsa

Source: Born Free: The Story of Elsa

“Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand.”

Knows Should Hands Night Song Stars Nature Path Tree Sky Strange Bird Seeds Flight Shakes Pens Shells Glances Night Sky Unbroken

Book:Collected poems, 1942-1970

Source: Collected poems, 1942-1970

“At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Littles Said Feelings Turns Nature Cutting Awake Commodity Simplest Vans Tourism Integrating Eco Live Every Day Seedlings

Author:Michael Leunig

“I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.”

Thinking Looks Asks Nature Tree Creation Huge Lucky Findings Bird Window Corners Cosmos Finding Myself

Author:Morris West

“Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.”

Art Beautiful Nature Art Is Creator Beautiful Things

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in the coats of the gentle kangaroo or the deep-earth smell of tiny wallabies. It is wonderful to see the trust in their eyes and the gradual realization that you mean them no harm.”

Mean Eye Earth Nature Wonderful Wind Arms Smell Harm Tiny Realization Gentle Coats Delightful Joey Kangaroos

Author:Stella Reid

“Yet however comforting and peaceful beach-combing is, it ends up like the sea, as disturbing as it is reassuring. In dark moments I believe that walking on a beach at low tide is to be looking for death, or at least anticipating it. You will only find the dead, the spilled and the cast-off. Things torn free of their life or their place.”

Believe Ends Moments I Believe Nature Dark Sea Walking Lows Casts Peaceful Beach Tides Torn Comforting Disturbing Reassuring Dark Moments

Author:Tim Winton

“For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.”

Moments Nature Sea Ready Offers Claims Chaos Relief Shiver

Author:Tim Winton

“I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.”

Doe Nature Sea Hungry Desert

Book:Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir

Source: Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir

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