European Exploration of Australia/land Exploration 1788-1900

Famous quotes containing the words european, exploration, australia and/or land:

    “Unsophisticated and confiding, they are easily led into every vice, and humanity weeps over the ruin thus remorselessly inflicted upon them by their European civilizers.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)