by Fiona Capp
Quote ‘Wasted—like that log . . .’ from Range the Mountains High, Lansdowne Press, 1962, p. 79.
Quote ‘red wounds in the soil . . .’, from launch of an exhibition, typed speech about trees, Judith Wright Collection, NLA.
Acknowledges the discovery of settler’s account of Darkies Point massacre, p. 30, BOC.
Account of the massacre by F. Eldershaw, Australia As It Really Is, Darton & Co., 1854.
Quotes ‘Each of our men was savagely anxious . . .’ to ‘sick of the horrid carnage below . . .’ from Eldershaw, pp. 64–73.
Quotes from ‘deeply degraded beings’ to ‘the wasting territories . . .’ from Eldershaw, pp. 88–102.
Quote ‘Night lips the harsh . . .’ from ‘Nigger’s Leap, New England’, CP, p. 15.
Quote from JW ‘It was no ‘wilderness . . . forgiveness.’, BOC, p. 30.
DREAMSCAPE
JW’s dream diary is in the private possession of Meredith McKinney.
Quote ‘They reveal their significance . . .’, Carl Gustav Jung as quoted by E A Bennet in What Jung Really Said, Abacus, 2001, pp. 92–3.
Reference to Paul Ehrlich in JW’s essay ‘Our Vanishing Chances’, BWI, p. 239.
Quote ‘the juggernaut machines . . .’ from ‘Habitat’, CP, pp. 297–309.
PART TWO: QUEENSLAND
THE LANDSCAPE OF LOVE
Quote ‘What I saw now in Queensland . . .’ from HL, p. 175.
Quote ‘lost in a desolate country’ from ‘The Forest’, a dedication, CP, p. 184.
Quote ‘If not, I left it across the way . . .’ from Equal Heart and Mind (EHM), Letters Between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney, Patricia Clarke and Meredith McKinney (eds), UQP, 2004, p. 62.
Quote ‘the sweet white flesh of lilies . . .’ from ‘Botanical Gardens’, CP, p. 85
Quote ‘two lovely trees in bloom . . .’ from letter to Nugget Coombs, MS 802, Box 49, Folders 378–383, NLA.
Quote ‘secretly sealed with love’ from EHM, p. 19.
Quote ‘a sharp and gentle observer’ from Southerly, vol. 61, no.1, 2001.
Quote ‘The gift of the poet is to feel . . . ’ from ‘The Poet and the Intellectual Environment’, Meanjin, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 47.
Quote ‘suffer not only more than others, but to suffer for others . . .’ from ‘The Poet and the Modern World’, Meanjin, vol. 1, no. 3, p. 80.
Quote ‘I am a tranquil lake . . .’ from ‘The Maker,’ CP, p. 30.
For more on Jack’s philosophical views, see The Structure of Modern Thought, J. P. McKinney, Chattos & Windus, 1971.
Quote ‘the values of feeling . . .’ from HL, p. 208.
Quotes from Clive Hamilton from ‘The Rebirth of Nature and the Climate Crisis’, A Sydney Ideas Lecture, University of Sydney, 7 July 2009 at www.clivehamilton.net.au/cms/media/documents/the_rebirth_ of_nature_and_the_climate_crisis,pdf, p. 15.
Quote ‘an intellectual atom bomb’ from EHM, p. 146.
Quote ‘the froth on the top of the cauldron . . .’ from Brigid Rooney, Literary Activists, UQP, 2009, p. 15.
Reviews of The Structure of Modern Thought published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Mar. 1974), pp. 449–50, and The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 89. (Oct., 1972), pp. 365–6.
Quote ‘because you are my home’ from ‘Two Hundred Miles’, CP, p. 96.
Quote ‘we are going to be very happy & defy the world’ from EHM, p. 132.
Quote ‘we live so much on the heights . . .’ from EHM, p. 134.
Quote ‘I think we’ll live and die in separate houses . . .’ EHM, p. 106.
Quote ‘when we are most, then we are least alone’ from ‘City Asleep’, CP, p. 49.
Quote from ‘time’s own root’ from ‘The Cycads’, CP, p. 39.
MY RED MOUNTAIN
Quote ‘Already the last of the gravel red roads are being bitumened . . .’ from WLF, p. 264.
Quote ‘my red mountain’ from ‘Two Hundred Miles, CP, p. 96–7.
Quote ‘the rich dark rainforest . . .’ from EHM, p. 2.
Quote ‘More and more I feel there isn’t an “I” . . .’ from WLF, p. 265.
Quote from ‘Rainforest’ from CP, p. 412.
Quote ‘From time immemorial, nature was always filled . . .’ from Jung, Essays on Contemporary Events, Routledge, 2002, p. 78
Quote ‘wild long dreams involving the whole of life and death . . .’ from WLF, p. 92.
Quote ‘being part of the galaxy . . .’ from WLF p. 276.
Quote ‘At times I feel as if I am spread out . . .’ from Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Gustav Jung and Aniela Jaffe, Pantheon, 1973, p. 225.
Quote from ‘Sanctuary’ from CP, p. 139.
Quote ‘a kind of hostility still . . .’ from HL, p. 248.
Quote from JW’s dream from her dream diary in the possession of Meredith McKinney.
Quote ‘Since nobody is capable of recognising . . .’ from Jung, Essays on Contemporary Events, Routledge, 2002, p. 93.
Quotes from ‘Camphor Laurel’ from CP, p. 35.
IN THE DARK WOOD
Quote from ‘The Ancestors’ from CP, p. 111.
Quote ‘Just as the body . . .’ from Carl Gustav Jung, The Basic Writings, The Modern Library, 1993, p. 42.
Quote ‘knowing in a dreadful way . . .’, Portrait of a Friendship: The Letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright 1950–2000 (POF), The Miegunyah Press, 2007, p. 39.
Quote ‘Those who see the Mountain today have no idea . . .’, The Turning Years, Eve Curtis, self-published, 1990, p. 155.
Quote ‘It is only if reason can draw upon . . .’ from Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith and Revolution, Yale University Press, 2009, p. 110.
Quote ‘our feelings and emotions must be engaged . . .’ BWI, p. 206.
Quote ‘not only rational recognition . . .’ from BWI, pp. 206–7.
Jonathan Bates, Jonathan Bates, Song of the Earth, Picador, 2000, p. 23.
Quote ‘we must regenerate ourselves . . .’ from BWI, p. 206.
Quote ‘Take their cold seed . . .’ from ‘The Cycads’, CP, p. 39.
Quote from ‘The Forest Path’, CP, p. 111.
Quote ‘we are beginning to recognise that we are not . . .’ from WLF, p. 218.
Quote ‘one of the mountain’s extra special days . . .’, WLF, p. 127.
Observation about suicides in National Parks from Raymond Curtis, interview with Fiona Capp, April 2009.
Quotes from ‘The Precipice’, CP, pp. 120–1.
BEYOND THE BURNING WIND
Quote ‘We were fortunate, house . . .’ from ‘Habitat’, CP, pp. 297–309.
Quote ‘Heraldic animals . . .’ from ‘Habitat’, CP, p. 305.
Quote ‘one of the glories’ from ‘Rain-forests of south-eastern Queensland in Summer’, Wildlife, vol. 1, no.1.
Quote ‘garden to wander in’ from WLF, p. 185.
Quote ‘It rejoices me to have one now’ from WLF, p. 116.
Quote ‘I was born into a coloured country . . .’ from ‘Reminiscence’, CP, pp. 329–30.
Quote ‘full of violets, wattle, and daffodils . . .’ from POF, p. 242
Quote ‘My childhood is divided . . .’ from HL, p. 37.
Quote ‘I hold the crimson fruit . . .’ from ‘The Maker’, CP, pp. 29–30.
Quote ‘I am the earth . . .’ from ‘Woman to Child’, CP, pp. 28–9.
Quote ‘What cooks out of sight in the basement . . .’ from POF, p. 16.
Quote ‘living earth’ from BWI, p. vii.
Quote ‘overmastered by life’ from ‘The Waiting Ward’, CP, p. 104.
Quote ‘I am the garden beyond . . .’ from ‘The Watcher’, CP, p. 105.
Reference to ‘Old Woman’s Song’, CP, p. 194.
Quote ‘the garden is rather a dream’, from Letter to Kathleen McArthur, 1952/3, MS 5781, Box 78, folder 568, NLA.
Reference to the stars as the garden’s flowers, ‘Naming the Stars’, p. 203.
Quote ‘swarm of honey bees’ from ‘Stars’ CP, p. 52.
Quote ‘Darkness where I find my sight’, ‘Midnight’, CP, p. 59.
Reference to lying in the garden and looking at the stars, WLF p. 203 &POF, p. 221.
Quote ‘neon night . . .’ from ‘Western Star’, CP, p. 123.
Quote ‘towering universe’ from ‘Praise for the Earth’, CP, p. 188.
Quote ‘some sad man-wrought . . .’ from ‘White Night’, CP, p. 324.
Quote ‘I’ve got no sense of public service whatever’ from EHM, p. 102.
Reference to bulldozing the countryside on an unprecedented scale, See Patriots, Defending Australia’s Natural Heritage, UQP, 2006, p. 20.
Quotes from ‘That Seed’, CP, p. 332.
Quote ‘down the creek the chain-saw . . .’ from POF, p. 30.
EYE OF THE EARTH
Quote ‘No one has marked the sea’ from ‘Sea-Beach’, CP, p. 138.
Quote ‘delectably perched on a lake shore . . .’ from HL, p. 280.
Quote ‘wild and birdy lakes . . .’ from WLF, p. 83.
Quote ‘All day the candid staring of the lake . . .’ from ‘The Lake’, CP, p. 189.
Quote ‘blue as a doll’s eye’ from WLF, p. 109.
Quote ‘in that little, light-filled concrete house . . .’ from HL, p. 283.
Quote from ‘Pelicans’, CP, p. 171.
Quote ‘forest of symbols for poetic harvesting’ from Jennifer Strauss, Judith Wright, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 93.
Quote ‘Words are not meanings for a tree’, from ‘Gum-Trees Stripping’, CP, p. 133.
Mention of tantalising scribbles on trunk of a gum refers to ‘Scribbly-Gum,’ p. 131, CP.
Quote ‘I am a tranquil lake . . .’ from ‘The Maker’. CP, p. 29–30.
Quote ‘eye of the earth’ from ‘The Lake’, CP, p. 189.
Quote ‘pool, jet-black and mirror-still’ from ‘Egrets’, CP, p. 166.
Reference to the declaration of Cooloola as a National Park from Patriots, William J. Lines, UQP, 2006, p. 96.
Reference to Cooloola sandmass as largest continuous series of sand dunes in the world, and Aborigines of the region from Wildflowering, Margaret Somerville, UQP, 2004, p. 134 and p. 153.
Quote ‘so horizontal blue’ and ‘clear black like a mirror . . . all different’ from WLF, p. 83.
Quotes ‘the certain heir of the lake’ to ‘white shores of sand . . .’ from ‘At Cooloolah’ CP, p. 140.
Quote ‘Some things ought to be left secret . . .’ from ‘Lyrebirds’, CP, p. 176.
Big Snake story from ‘For Christine’, Papers of Judith Wright, MS 5781, NLA.
Quote ‘tropical gulag’ from Tall Man, Chloe Hooper, Hamish Hamilton, 2008, p. 11.
‘The Graves at Mill Point’ from CP, p. 193.
‘Lake in Spring’ from CP, p. 333.
THE LANDSCAPE OF GRIEF
Quote ‘an obscure hamlet’ and subsequent references to this journey are from JW’s memoir about Jack’s death published in EHM, pp. 186–190.
Quote ‘Suffer, wild country . . .’ from ‘Australia 1970’, CP, pp. 287–8.
Letter to Jack Blight about Jack’s death, p. 177, WLF.
JW’s dreams after Jack’s death from her dream diary.
Quote ‘It’s so good getting back there, with the garden to dig in,’ POF, p. 207.
Quotes ‘Here still, the mountain that we climbed . . .’ to ‘steep unyielding rock’ from ‘This Time Alone’, CP, pp. 260–61.
Reference to poem about being trapped beneath the earth from ‘Eurydice in Hades’, CP, p. 264.
Quote ‘stuck at the bottom of a page as though it were a cliff edge’, WLF, p. 131.
Quotes ‘fountain of hot joy’ to ‘Out of the torn earth’s mouth . . .’ from ‘Flame-tree in a Quarry’, CP. p. 60.
Quote ‘great blossoming of the mountain’s flame trees . . .’ from Kathleen McArthur’s tribute to Judith Wright, Papers of Judith Wright, MS 5781, Box 104, Folder 747, NLA.
Quote ‘this sudden season’ from ‘The Flame-tree’, CP, p. 95.
Quote ‘the equal heart and mind’ from ‘The Forest’, CP, p. 184.
Quote ‘Now, in its eighteenth spring . . .’ from ‘The Flame-tree Blooms’, CP, p. 287.
Quote ‘Not till those fiery . . . be one’ from ‘All Things Conspire’, CP, p. 93.
Quote ‘whistling one of Jack’s tunes’ from POF, p. 235.
Quote ‘rather beautiful people . . .’ from WLF, p. 268.
Memories of Calanthe from ‘Habitat’, CP, p. 297.
Quote ‘secret place behind the world’ from ‘Dialgoue’, CP, p. 131.
Reference to unbridgeable gulf from ‘Space Between’, CP, p. 314.
Quote ‘the garden is so huge . . .’ from POF, p. 212.
Quote ‘the best of my life has been lived here’ from WLF, p. 195.
Quote ‘So many places I can see . . .’ from POF, p. 317.
Poem about an old boat tied up on the lake from ‘Half Dream’, CP, p. 347.
Dream from JW’s dream diary in the possession of Meredith McKinney.
Quote ‘tiny, vulnerable planet . . .’ from BWI, p. 254.
Quote ‘detached from some bond . . .’ from JW’s dream diary.
Quote ‘I’m tired now, summers . . .’ from ‘Moving South’, CP, pp. 386–7.
‘At Cedar Creek’, CP, p. 379.
Quote ‘Whatever Being is . . .’ from ‘Lament for Passenger Pigeons’, CP, p. 319.
Quote ‘mythopoetic connection to the landscape’ from WLF, p. 521.
Quote ‘losing the first was grief . . .’ from JW’s dream diary.
PART THREE: ACT & MONGARLOWE
OPERA CITY
Quotes ‘fantasy of power’ and ‘rhetorical opera city’ from ‘Brief Notes on Canberra’, CP, pp. 351–4.
Mention of tree outside her flat at University House from WLF, p. 256.
Quotes ‘no balance between . . .’ and ‘an ecological miracle’ from ‘Brief Notes on Canberra, CP, pp. 351–4.
Quote ‘Let love not fall from me . . .’ from ‘Prayer’, CP, p. 229.
Quote ‘Indeed, it is difficult for me to identify . . .’ from Aboriginal Autonomy, H. C. Coombs, Cambridge, 1994, p. xv.
Quote ‘Barbara Blackman wants to give me . . . long time, my love’ from Papers of Nugget Coombs, MS 802, Box 49, F 378–83, NLA, letter dated 22 April, 1975.
Quote ‘it entails a whole new philosophy of living . . .’ BWI, p. 254.
Quote ‘climate change, pollution of land and sea . . .’ from ‘Recollections of Nugget Coombs, Public Servant’, Papers of Judith Wright, MS 5781, Box 87, Folder 625, NLA.
Quote ‘everything here is immediately . . .’ from WLF, p. 260.
Reference to a friend that she was a territorial animal from WLF, p. 256.
Quote ‘long slope that goes down . . .’ from WLF, p. 266.
Quote ‘the land is so lovely . . .’, WLF, p. 285.
THE WORLD ’S LAST EDGE
Quote ‘blood slows . . .’ from ‘Pressures’ CP, p. 424.
Interview with JW by Fiona Capp, The Age 27 June, 1986.
Quote ‘this green world that dies’ from ‘Eve Sings’, CP, p. 358.
Reference to letter to Meredith about flooded river and recently killed kangaroo skeleton from JW’s letter to Meredith McKinney, 5 June, 1978, Papers of Judith Wright, MS 5781, NLA.
Quotes ‘white as moonlight’ and ‘pad tracks in the sand . . .’ from ‘Riverbend, CP, p. 416.
Quotes ‘landscape of leaves’ and ‘Any shadow might be a beak . . .’ from ‘Violet Stick-Insects’, CP, p. 416.
‘Winter’, CP, p. 425.
Quotes ‘They meet, they mingle . . .’ from ‘Late Meeting’, CP, pp. 399–400.
Quote ‘Lover, we’ve made between us . . .’ from ‘Eve Scolds’, CP, pp. 359–360.
PHANTOM DWELLING
Quote ‘We three walk through . . .’ from ‘Glass Corri
dor’, CP, p. 418.
Quote ‘I’ve come more and more to think . . .’ from WLF, p. 109.
Quote ‘do away with the self ’ from Papers of Judith Wright, MS 5781, essay on Tinnitus, Box 104, Folder 746, NLA.
Quote ‘And yet we all in the end live . . .’ from Matsuo Basho, ‘The Hut of the Phantom Dwelling’, Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life, B. Watson and S. Addiss, Shambhala, 1994, p. 85.
Quotes ‘a forest level with my eye . . .’ to ‘ancient orders’ from ‘Backyard’, CP, pp. 397–8.
Quote ‘I dote on it quite amazingly’ from pp. 344–5, WLF.
Quote ‘for its honed . . .’ from ‘Bevity’ p. 413, CP.
Quote ‘every part of the country . . .’ as quoted in Veronica Brady South of My Days, Angus & Robertson, 1998, p. 433.
Reference to kinship with stars, mountains from BOC, p. 14.
Quotes ‘solitary, autonomous and a world unto itself . . .’ and all other from Clive Hamilton, interview with Alan Saunders on ‘The Philosopher’s Zone’, ABC Radio National, 18 July 2009. For the essay which inspired this discussion see ‘The Rebirth of Nature and the Climate Crisis’ by Clive Hamilton on his website.
Quote ‘this place’s quality is not its former nature . . .’ from Summer, CP, p. 421.
Quote ‘end-of-summer evening . . .’ from letter dated 20 March, 1982, MS 802, Box 104, Folder 746, NLA.
Quotes ‘drought had stopped the song of the river . . .’ to ‘Poems written in age . . .’ from ‘Dust’, CP, p. 424.
Quote ‘ a city of wombats’ from ‘Summer’, CP, p. 421.
Quotes ‘who saw the first cruel ghost-people arrive’ to ‘live through their kind and their land’ from ‘From Ridge To River’, unpublished essay, Papers of Judith Wright, MS 5781, NLA.
Quote ‘a wild, perpetual voice’ from ‘Riverbend’, CP, p. 416.
Quotes ‘the ancestral powers of stone’ to ‘I’ve no wish to chisel things . . .’ from ‘Rockface’, CP, p. 420.
YEARS OF LOVE AND WORK
Quote ‘Tried not to look at your windows’ from November 1976, Papers of Nugget Coombs, MS 802, Box 49, Folder 378–83, NLA.
Quote ‘I have washed the desert . . .’, date unknown, Papers of Nugget Coombs, MS 802, Box 49, folder 378–83, NLA.
Quote ‘the plans sound very alluring’ 25 April, 1978, Papers of Nugget Coombs, MS 802, Box 49, folder 378–83, NLA.
Quote ‘They look like people . . .’ from ‘They’, CP, p. 349.
