coppice quotes

The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Mackellar whiteman likeshimor not.If thewhiteman says he does, he is instantlyand usually quite rightlymistrusted. Is running in your veins. Strong love of grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft, dim skiesI know but cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me!

- (Isobel Marion) Dorothea Mackellar
England, Half English, 'A Short Guide for  Jumbles'. 1905  'Core of My Heart', first published in the London Spectator. Collected as'My Country' in The Closed Door, and Other Verses (1911).