Craig Bellamy

“Kitsch and tourism are inseparable partners. Perhaps it is because, by definition, both are inauthentic.”
― Don Watson, The Bush

“From Kathmandu there is a road through Gorkha Country to Pokhara, in the central foothills; farther west, no roads exist at all. The road winds through steep gorges of the Trisuli River, now in torrent; dirty whitecaps filled the rapids, and the brown flood was thickened every now and again by thunderous rockslides down the walls of the ravine.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

“The prolonged solitary exposure to the bush that makes some people odd or crazy might in others bring the active and contemplative life into perfect harmony or grace.”
― Don Watson, The Bush

“In other words, by 2100, the entire planet could look like Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, at least in terms of capital intensity.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century