Way down south where bananas grow, A grasshopper jumped on an elephant’s toe, The elephant said with tears in his eyes “Pick on somebody your own size.”

A worm is as good a traveller as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.
Henry David Thoreau ” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”

Descend into the forest’s weave.Soul Glim.

He wahine ke te kainga, he kaka ki te ngahere

(A woman in the house is like a kaka in the forest)

http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol3no1/moon2.html

gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people dining in a good home. M. F. K. Fisher 1908-1992)

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through 

three distinct  

and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry 

and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, 

and Where phases.  For instance, the first phase is 

characterized by the question “How can we eat?,
the second by the question “Why do we eat? and the 

third by the question, “Where shall we have lunch?”

Douglas Adams

I am a daylight atheist. Brendan Behan

Steiner/Waldorf teacher Sean Burke, of Perth, Western Australia.

Time be a castle, throwing towers tall,
walls steady, moats deep and wide…

FOTO – TOOWONG BRISBANE 2007

‘Go as the way opens’ QUAKER.

Volker Pudel, food psychologist from Göttingen.“Chocolate is a fine product, you should savour it with a good conscience.”

http://www.aichberger.de/22E_chocolate.htm

FOTO – DESSERT IN NEW FARM 2007

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. Cicero (44 B.C.)

“I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.”
Pietro Aretino (1537)

Life is unsure, always eat your dessert first.

The cafes had closed their doors to the drinkers and domino players. The lounging Arab boys had deserted the sandy Place de la Marine.
The Garden of Allah (bk. I, ch. I)  ROBERT SMYTHE HICHENS
English (1864 – 1950)

FOTO – SPHINX ROCK CAFE

There are perils by land, and perils by water. Adam Lindsay Gordon

If you chop water, it won’t separate

FOTO – LAKE MACQUARIE 2008

You must know the speech of hills and rivers. Aldo Leopold.

Oh, why can’t we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean, flee to my lodge in the hills.
S.J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, and Arthur Sheekman

FOTO -BILAMBIL LOOKING NORTH 2008

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. TOM ROBBINS.

It takes a wise man to act the fool

FOTO – STOKERS SIDING HALL FEBRUARY 2009

Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by and is no more. MADAGASCAR.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
Gene Wolfe

FOTO – BILAMBIL MIST 2007

Hard work never did anyone any harm

Don’t worry about being slow; just worry about stopping. CHINESE.

FOTO -MAD O’BRIAN’S SHED

The palm wine tree that is afraid of the calabash should stop producing palm wine. BAYELSA.

Ewe Language (Ghana, West Africa)

WometsÇa deku eve dea alÇgo ðeka me o.
You cannot crack two palmnuts in the mouth at the same time.

 AFRICAN PROVERBS

FOTO – SUNRISE IN BILAMBIL.

Born alone to escape thoughts conceived within a dying star. Jordan Couch.

W n n a sakashikute ushi urisokanau

(If a woman is smart, she will fail to sell cows.)

FOTO – LYNNE IN 1950 SYDNEY.

 

Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes? Indiana Jones

Saint Patrick was a gentleman…Who through strategy and stealth…Drove all the snakes from Ireland…Here’s a drinkee to his health! But not too many drinkees…Lest we lose ourselves and then…Forget the good Saint Patrick…And see them snakes again!

FOTO – BILAMBIL COTTAGE

The Cuckoo by Ogden Nash Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives, They fail as husbands and as wives, Therefore they cynically disparage Everybody else’s marriage.

Māori proverb: “He pīpīwharauroa atu i konei, ki konā—when the cuckoo leaves one nest, it goes over there, still a cuckoo, so kaua koe e katakata

FOTO – COUCAL IN BILAMBIL 2006

Indian proverb."Even if you are drinking milk under a coconut tree, people will still say you are drinking toddy".

RIVER.

But it don’t snow here
It stays pretty green
I’m going to make a lot of money
Then I’m going to quit this crazy scene
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

JONI MITCHELL.

FOTO – TWEED RIVER FROM FINGAL NSW

The deepest rivers flow by most silently. Victoria Richards

THE SWAGMAN.
He’s waltzing old Matilda, and when you were in your bed,
He was dreaming ‘neath the gum trees by the river, .
And the kookaburras chattered, as the day dawned, fierce and red.
And the river breezes woke him. with a shiver.

J.A.B. Harrisson (1909-1983)

FOTO – BRISBANE RIVER 1962 CHOKED WITH WATER HYACINTH.

To return then, again, to undo in the heart the knot of our sweet wounded country, the nothingness of our lost dream of a life shared floating. FERNANDO RENDÓN

Joseph Henry (American Physicist) 1797 – 1878

“The seeds of great discovery are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.”

SUNSET AMID THE BUFFALO MOUNTAINS (N.E. Victoria) Across the boulder’d majesty Of the great hills the passing day Drifts like a wind-borne cloud away Far off beyond the western sky: And while a purple glory spreads, With straits of gold and brilliant reds, An azure veil, translucent, strange, Dreamlike steals over each dim range.

Bardi songs and song poetry

jilaljilal ngayoo booroo  ngankalan

go behind I country I-visit far

I am going to another country, a country somewhere far away.

FOTO – ARMIDALE SUNSET 2007

http://www.all-creatures.org/works/sunset-smokies.html