Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after another has been sacrificed. Beautiful places, holy places, lost not only to them, but forever.
Richard Flanagan
Related Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man... MAX VON SYDOW Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special h... RICHARD JEFFERIES Of all the places I have been, your mind is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. AKSHAY VASU Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. ... C.S. LEWIS In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going the... CYNTHIA JOHNSON There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been. NIKKI ROWE We're really pleased to have them on board. The Nashville restaurant community has an extraordinary ... DON LURIA Not only synagogues are holy, but so are all places where people find their affinity with their God. YONA METZGER Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively ... SIMON WINCHESTER Twenty years ago we didn't have this problem. We would have had places available to house people and... BEVERLY GOULET Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place. MICHAEL MANN For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. ELIZABETH KOSTOVA I have one of the most beautiful places in the world in Orange County. That's a great place to l... THOMAS DOOLEY We're not seeing evidence of a lack of places. For the last couple of years we've had spare places a... ELIZABETH LOFTUS I think that 'Station to Station' is a nomadic project not only in a literal sense, as it... DOUG AITKEN Dinin nodded. “Ten years ago,” he began, wondering why he was telling all this to Jarlaxle, “I... R.A. SALVATORE It's been here forever, the people love it and it's something only Greenwich has. I've taken vacatio... FRED WALTERS Many of them are men who began to learn very young and showed extraordinary ability. Some have been ... AL COOK But to hint and hover...when we most wish to be free of them; what is this but cat-and-mouse play, b... C.S. LEWIS I like to write about beautiful places, interesting places to me. PHYLLIS A. WHITNEY The challenge down there in South Bend is that they've got this quaint, beautiful little town, and a... CHUCK MAPLES Historically, Wal-Mart has only been concerned about the consumer. But 12 years ago, Wal-Mart began ... BILL DREHER For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the read... TIM CAHILL Our inner-city neighborhoods have been written off as places of great risks, but they are also place... PHIL ANGELIDES One life has been lost. I ask you not to destroy another. FRED PETERS And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burn... BIBLE There are only two places in the league - first place and no place. TOM SEAVER I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14. CASEY STONER I've had my dream job. I have been able to work on issues that I have been deeply passionate about s... ARTHUR LEVITT I absolutely love Ireland. It's one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and I have strong tie... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI I think Indiana has those things in place but not necessarily so much more than a lot of other place... CLARK KELLOGG I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places. ROBERT KIYOSAKI Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind for... JULIET MARILLIER There's an absence of things to do for adult singles in the area. There aren't places like there use... ART WURSTER The traffic situation in Beijing has not deteriorated. In places, it has improved, but of course in ... LIU XIAOMING It's not the coldest place, but it has a sure cold. And unlike the coldest places, it also has a sur... DAVID PHILLIPS After 35 years of guerrilla activity, people should realize things are unsafe in some places. There ... HECTOR HERRERA Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged int... EAMON DE VALERA Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and o... TINIE TEMPAH They have scars, but it's nice because one sister has exactly the same scars in exactly the same pla... EMILY STARK One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, B... F. H. BRADLEY One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, B... FRANCIS H. BRADLEY One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answere... FRANCIS HERBERT BRADLEY Palm Bay has always been one of the most affordable places to build a home, but now, they've priced ... FRANCK KAISER Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, B... ALLYSON SCHWARTZ One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living... DOUGLAS ADAMS As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me t... GEORGE J. MITCHELL Everything has been going on normally, the election has not been postponed anywhere. At some places ... TEJMUNI BAJRACHARYA Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside t... TORI AMOS Another loss and we would have been pretty much out of it for the top two places (in the ECC). Now w... ADAM LUCHTERHAND Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. JODI PICOULT The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should... SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should... SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR This is one of the most beautiful places I've seen, and I've seen a lot of places in the world. I ke... JACK LEGGETT It feels good to get back after losing by two points. My goal has been to get back and place higher ... AARON SANDEL We've had way too many busts. They've been in different places with different people, so it's not on... WAYNE DICKENS He is Beautiful in all places; I do not see any other at all. Meeting with the True Guru, O Nanak, t... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB I have been to Dubai more than 20 years back. It has been a while since I last visited the place, ILIE NASTASE McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best place... ERIC SCHLOSSER A few years ago at (The Raven) we hit the ball in places I didn't even know existed. GREG ALLEN When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long a... ADAM COHEN Security of places of minority worship across Pakistan has been intensified and extra police deploye... AFTAB SHERPAO When the pair of buildings are seen together, with the plaza, it's going to become one of the favori... LARRY FAULKNER There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. WENDELL BERRY History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but a... CHARLES STROSS For the first time since I started in this business 21 years ago, I have not only felt uninspired, b... JOE SMITH The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the ... 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CLIVE SINCLAIR Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. MELVYN BRAGG Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 American... ELIZABETH ESTY We're just going to have to work backwards from where he was last and wherever he's been, ... He's b... CHRIS SWECKER It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel ... CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been... MARTHA BECK He came in with his guns blazing a couple of years ago and has been busy since. DAVE READ Some men are all right in their place--if they only knew the right places! MAE WEST The guys have been gone for a year, so we lost them for a year. Since they got back, due to certain ... KRISTIE WATERFIELD Once the Internet removes geography as a constraint, the smartest people go to the most beautiful pl... GREG GIANFORTE General merchandisers have been lousy places to be, because management has not delivered and that fo... GAVIN GRAHAM The blest to-day is as completely so,
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DON FLANAGAN The good thing about being a basketball team is that you play a lot of games. We have a game against... DON FLANAGAN That was a tough game for us. DON FLANAGAN Nobody that I talked to wanted to be part of this program. DON FLANAGAN They'll go right in there and run something completely different. But they're going to get over that... DON FLANAGAN That was a great defensive effort, because Wyoming is a very good team. They set so many screens and... DON FLANAGAN This was a tough game for us. I saw so many things I didn't like. They weren't carrying out some thi... DON FLANAGAN They believed they were going to be successful and for some reason we didn't believe we were going t... DON FLANAGAN They are a very well-coached team with a lot of movement on offense. They drive and dish a lot. They... DON FLANAGAN I've taken him to Chicago for the Cubs. DENNIS FLANAGAN She's got a really soft touch and is very accurate at getting the ball around the rim, so she gets s... DON FLANAGAN I think there is going to be a strong sentiment to run from this. MIKE FLANAGAN In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all the... DENNIS FLANAGAN What we opposed was that federal aid should go to these virtual universities that disguise themselve... SARAH FLANAGAN I re-traced your footsteps to that miserable little Tibetan monastery. It was hard to get the monks ... ANNE FLANAGAN It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that a handful of insurance companies with a strangleh... JERRY FLANAGAN Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet... JOHN FLANAGAN These girls have played a lot of basketball, so they knew they could come back and win. GLEN FLANAGAN It was enough to get it done tonight. I wish we had played better, but we're going (to state) and th... GLEN FLANAGAN Our pressure got to them in the second quarter. GLEN FLANAGAN We've been waiting to play like this for a long time. Good time to do it. GLEN FLANAGAN We played basketball like it is supposed to be played. We moved the ball, we played good defense, we... GLEN FLANAGAN We'd keep pulling away and they'd reel us back in. GLEN FLANAGAN It was a physical game. The refs let a lot go, the teams were banging on each other. GLEN FLANAGAN Someone put a lid on the bucket. We missed all 17 of our 3-pointers. We were 17-of-74 from the field... GLEN FLANAGAN We were really flat and had no energy in the first quarter. They (the Hawks) jumped on us hard and t... GLEN FLANAGAN We were balanced; it was a fun game. It was a packed house. Any time we tried to pull away, they wou... GLEN FLANAGAN That's for another time, FIONNULA FLANAGAN We had a wild night out with them in Wilmington (North Carolina, where filming took place). FIONNULA FLANAGAN There are plenty of roles for older women. They just don't happen to be the roles that normally carr... FIONNULA FLANAGAN Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. FIONNULA FLANAGAN After more than 30 years ... sometimes the only thing that you have is the remaining teeth or very f... GARY FLANAGAN You're an apprentice, you're not ready to think yet. -Ranger's Apprentice JOHN FLANAGAN What the devil is Chocho?' Will whispered. Horace's grin broadened. 'You are. It's what the men... JOHN FLANAGAN The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'An... JOHN FLANAGAN Gundar isn't so much a ship's captain as a reformed pirate and a heathen." [Evanlyn] looked apologet... JOHN FLANAGAN