02-Sep-2021 Theme: 'Famous nature verse'

(1) Who wrote: “I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains.”

Answer: Dorothy Mackellar.

(2) Who wrote: “Nature, red in tooth and claw”.

Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson.

(3) Who wrote: “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.”

Answer: Dylan Thomas.

(4) Who wrote: “Gumtree in the city street, Hard bitumen around your feet, Rather you should be, In the cool world of leafy forest halls, And wild bird calls.”

Answer: Oodgeroo Noonuccal.

(5) Who wrote: “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”

Answer: DH Lawrence.

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