Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Quote of the day: On Sydney’s savages …

Civilised man has never had a greater opportunity to find
his home in the midst of a natural paradise than than offered
him right in the heart of the Australian metropolis.
No savages could be capable of making such a mess
of this opportunity as Sydney as hitherto made of it … ”

- architect Walter Burley Griffin, writing in 1922

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