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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.

Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore and solitary medieval churches.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.