Australia is an island, a really, really big island.Bill Bryson
In Australia, not reading an automobile map is a capital offense. It's considered almost sissy-ish to ask for directions.Bill Bryson
If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback.Bill Bryson
And it is said that half the world's animal species live in Australia. That's it. There isn't much else to tell. Kangaroos, wallabies, koalas.Bill Bryson
People in Australia order beer in so many weights and containers that it could take you years to work out how to drink a pint comfortable there.Bill Bryson
In Australia even the fluffiest of caterpillars can lay you out with a toxic nip, it seems that you don't actually have to be alive to be deadly.Bill Bryson
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.Bill Bryson
All the creatures are not so openly harmful, but are reasonably sure to be taxonomically interesting - which is, after all, the important thing.Bill Bryson
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country’s dangers are vastly overrated and that there’s nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it’s okay now because he’s off the life support machine and they’ve discovered he can communicate with eye blinks.Bill Bryson
Australia is an extraordinarily beautiful place, but you have to look at it in a different way.Bill Bryson