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| Albert Camus, Return to Tipasa (1952) |
| I love a sunburnt country A land of sweeping plains Of ragged mountain ranges Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons I love her jewel sea Her beauty and her terror The wide, brown land for me. Dorothea Mackellar (1904) |
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11 comments:
I love that poem ever since we had to learn it at school.
Beautiful crepe myrtle, Julie. Lovely poem.
-- K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel
On a less philosophical level, all you need is an airplane ticket to find that summer. BTW, I didn't understand most of the Oz-realism slang in your comment today, except that me in a thong would result in a national disaster.
Julie, there was a poignant interview with Richard Glover on our National Public Radio yesterday and he did mention the significance of this poem, well-known for certain in your country.
Your Camus quote seems appropriate in this difficult time.
Here is the link to the PBS article
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/15/132956600/Floods-Will-Hit-Australia-Hard-Long-After-Water-Goes
Bises,
Genie
I love Albert Camus, this quotation is very positive!
What a great post Julie. Lovely. Thank you.
Very appropriate post.
Interesting contrast.
Graffiti with a message. Love it.
When did we begin to think we could manage the climate ... the old people knew better ... the cycles of drought, flood and fire as as old as time in this land.
Love both the Camus and the Mackellar quotes, words to live by.
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