Aussie poem, not any more Glickman's biotech speech and killer weeds

Argall Family (grargall@alphalink.com.au)
Sat, 24 Jul 1999 19:20:35 +1000

Lawrence
That little poem has more meaning when you know that back in the days when
school children learned poetry, every Australian schoolchild learned, by
rote:

"My Country"
by Dorothea Mackellar [1908]

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewelled sea,
Her beauty and her terror,
The wide brown land for me.

[to the best the old fogeys here can recall the words Saturday night.]

which does have the smell of nature, room for permaculture, while the parody
below conveys nicely the awful stink of too many contemporary conventional
attitudes

Dennis
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Lawrence London's posting was

>Found in the alt.permaculture newsgroup:

Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) site:
http://www.powerup.com.au/~1earth/permacult.htm.

The Farmer & The Permaculturist

I love a well-kept country,
a land without a tree,
a land controlled by Round-Up,
not a weed in sight to see!

I love my back-pack sprayer,
it's pesticides and spray,
my chainsaw and my dozer,
no weeds get in my way!

By Mark Fry & Andre of Permaculture Noosa Inc

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