17 quotes
Anyone can find hope in the stories: the big stories and the little ones in between.
Carpentaria (2006)
Like autumn leaves, bad days fell away as though the genius of the room could not retain them.
Carpentaria (2006)
Truly all it is is commitment, belief and dedication to the task and understanding in yourself that you will do it, even if it seems unbelievable at the time.
it was exactly like what the old law people had always said would happen if you look after country, country will look after you.
Praiseworthy (2023)
We are going to need the greatest creativity we can find to work on the ever-increasing complex problems facing our combined humanity. We cannot afford a government censoring education and knowledge.
This is the only planet we know that supports life. We would do well to see the world as a sacred site that is holy, speak to our planet with kindness, and protect it as such.
In every neck of the woods people walked in the imagination of doomsayers and talked the language of extinction. (p5)
The Swan Book (2013)
People tell stories all the time: the stories they want told, where any story could be changed or warped this way or that. (p84)
The Swan Book (2013)
We've got a beautiful country, a beautiful world, why not enjoy it?
Interview (2013)
After clouds, always mist, and another ghost story to tell. (p187)
The Swan Book (2013)
We cannot be guided by an ethos of neglect, brokenness of heart, misery of spirit that will lead us into a future world devoid of joy. The world’s combined humanity must sing the planet up with careful songs, songs of responsibility and respect.
No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.
Interview (2013)
The girl convinced herself that only the mad people in the world would tell you the truth when madness was the truth, when the truth itself was mad. (p64)
The Swan Book (2013)
Of course we will require a greater workforce in health and technology, but we will also need an even greater workforce with the imagination and passion to improve the health of our combined humanity, and our connectedness with the only planet we can survive on.
Her mind was only a lonely mansion for the stories of extinction. (p333)
The Swan Book (2013)
All the governments of the world need to act now and act urgently to turn this planetary nightmare around before it is too late, because this warning of the magnitude and acceleration of biodiversity loss is a global crisis with dangerous implications not only for one million species but for human health and long-term survival.
The important public officials, passionately depicting themselves as unified people, were obsessed with imagination, narrow though it was in their minds. Well! Aesthetics was all. (p265)
The Swan Book (2013)