A Late Education Quotes

“In a dressing station one day a wounded Australian soldier with an unlighted cigarette in his mouth chatted with me for a while and then said "Have you got a match, dig?" I had no matches but I borrowed a lighter in a moment and lit it. The soldier did not draw on his cigarette, however, because in that instant of time he died.”
― Alan Moorehead, A Late Education

“...in some ways depressions are more disastrous than wars, for wars are action and generate energy, while depressions are paralysis”
― Alan Moorehead, A Late Education

“The great onslaught upon the bush was only just beginning - the cutting down and ring-barking of the eucalyptus forests to make way for grazing land - and no one then could have envisaged a time when so much of this countryside would become tame and urbanized and even uglier than the American middle west. We thought the bush, like the British Empire, was there forever; it was so old and there was so much of it.”
― Alan Moorehead, A Late Education