“Maybe they should build a fence around these standing stones,” I suggested. “Our people don't like fences. We think they might just make someone curious and want to jump over it.” CountryLandAustraliaIndigenous PeopleLand OwnershipOutback AustraliaAboriginal Country Book:Stranger Country Source: Stranger Country
“And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-grimed bricks, she knew no more of Nature than a scarecrow rigid on a broomstick above a field of waving corn. She who had lived so close to the little forest on the Bendigo Road had never felt the short wiry grass underfoot. Never walked between the straight shaggy stems of the stringy-bark trees. Never paused to savour the jubilant gusts of Spring that carried the scent of wattle and eucalypt right into the front hall of the College. Nor sniffed with foreboding the blast of the North wind, laden in summer with the fine ash of mountain fires.” NatureOutback Australia Book:Picnic at Hanging Rock Source: Picnic at Hanging Rock
“At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a dark slit between two rocks where maidenhair fern trembled like green lace.” NatureEnchantmentOutback Australia Book:Picnic at Hanging Rock Source: Picnic at Hanging Rock