"... somewhere in the dry heat of the Outback there remains a slow, steady, ancient heartbeat, a unique group of people not concerned with racism, but concerned only with other people and the environment. To understand that pulse is to better understand being human or human being-ness." From the Author to the Reader, p. xiii.

"If you are ... someone who hears the message [of this book], it will come through to you loud and strong. You will feel it in your gut, heart, head, and the marrow of your bones." From the Author to the Reader, p. xiv

"... I knew very little about any of the Aboriginal nations except the idle comments I heard occasionally. I didn't know if they were a close knit race or if, like Native Americans, vast differences, including different languages, were common." p. 3

"Much later I would understand that the releasing of attachment to...