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...Kalbarri National Park, cut by the gorges of the Murchison River, borders the North West Coastal Highway. It contains more than 800 wildflower species, but they're not screaming out to the motorist flashing by at the 110-km/h limit. "We tell people, Stop the car, get out, walk into the bush and you'll be amazed at what you find," says Rae Edwards, owner of the Kalbarri Wildflower Centre. A big part of her job is teaching people how to look. "If you see a bird or bee on a bush, it's a clue there are flowers...
Hurlbut received his share of eccentric letters, including this one from D. Blake in Murchison, Texas...
...honest: Finances enter into theequation," says Ann M. Murchison, a counselor atFort Worth Country Day School in Texas. "If youcan get an equal or similar education at anotherhigh-level school and perhaps get a betterfinancial aid package, the other school may bemore tempting...
...contrast, the world from which Kate Gaffney-Kozinski escapes is seen as numbing and corrupt. Immigration, corporate push and interlocking alliances have threatened the simpler traditions of mateship and the bush. There, the wounded Kate finds honest work as a barmaid at Murchison's Railway Hotel in a place called Myambagh. She acquires a flair for pouring beer, a taste for fattening food and a liking for a chap nicknamed Jelly -- not because of his shape but because he has a way with the explosive gelignite. Amid what Thomas Keneally labels "a safer Australia . . . where people called lunch dinner...
...entry into society is shut tight to anyone who has not paid his or her dues in service to the city. If one has more money than one needs, a handsome percentage of the surplus is expected to be given first to God, second to Dallas. Money Titans Clint Murchison Sr. and Jr. used to say, "Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell...