Stranger Country Quotes

“The vegetation grew so dense the road looked like a square slice of cake taken out clean with a knife. Although the wet tropics covers less than one percent of Australia, it contains almost half of our bird species, a third of our mammal species, more than half of our butterfly species, and over seven hundred plant species endemic to the area. The rain forest seemed to inhale and exhale in a sweaty tangle of heaving bio matter.”
― Monica Tan, Stranger Country

“Maybe they should build a fence around these standing stones,” I suggested.

“Our people don't like fences. We think they might just make someone curious and want to jump over it.”
― Monica Tan, Stranger Country