389 Quotes About Australian

River red gumMeaning: EnchantmentEucalyptus camaldulensis | All states and territoriesIconic Australian tree. Smooth bark sheds in long ribbons. Has a large, dense crown of leaves. Seeds require regular spring floods to survive. Flowers late spring to mid-summer. Has the ominous nickname 'widow maker', as it often drops large boughs (up to half the diameter of the trunk) without warning.

There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember.

Then the wind died down and the air grew warm and the flies awoke and started to drone, and they were a constant background hum, like ocean waves, rushing and ebbing and flowing, loud enough to hear through closed windows, and in great numbers, floods of flies, a communal purr, never just a single buzz.

No Aussie would wear long white socks like that.

Desert oakMeaning: ResurrectionAllocasuarina decaisneana | Central AustraliaKurkara (Pit.) have deeply furrowed, cork-like bark, which is fire-retardant. Slow-growing but fast to develop a taproot that can reach subsurface water at depths over ten meters. Mature trees form a large, bushy canopy. Many found in the central desert are likely to be more than one thousand years old.

River LilyMeaning: Love concealedCrinum pedunculatum | Eastern AustraliaVery large perennial usually found on the edge of forests, but also at the high-tide level close to mangroves. Fragrant, white slender star-shaped flowers. Seeds sometimes germinate while still attached to the parent plant. The sap has been used as a treatment for box jellyfish stings.

You mustn't judge Australia by the Australians.

As we'd say Down Under, there's no point pushing shit uphill with a rubber fork on a hot day.""Are these real Australian sayings or do you come up with this stuff yourself?" I said."It's genetic," Muz said, grinning."We're born with it already in our blood.

Desert heath-myrtleMeaning: Flame, I burnThryptomene maisonneuvii | Northern TerritoryTraditionally, Anangu women beat pukara (Pit.) with a wooden bowl to collect dew containing nectar from the flowers. Thryptomene, derived from Greek, means coy or prudish; this bush appears modest but in winter through to spring produces a cloak of tiny white flowers with red centres, blooming as if revealing a secret.