"The past is never fully gone. It is absorbed into the present and the future. It stays to shape what we are and what we do."
Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia, Inaugural Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture, August 1996.
"John Griffith was a Tasnianian merchant who specialised in whaling and sealing. His ship 'Elizabeth' was the first to harvest wattle bark from the local trees in 1834. During the 1840s, after the collapse of the wattle bark industry, the port grew due to the local timber and farming industries."
Source: Taken from a display in San Remo photographed in May 2022.
"Let us regard the forest as an inheritance, not to be destroyed or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently honoured and carefully maintained. Let us regard the forest as a gift, entrusted to any of us only for transient care, to be surrendered to posterity as an unimpaired property, increased in riches and augmented in blessings, to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation."
Baron Ferdinand von Mueller - Suggestions on the Maintenance, Creation and Enrichment of Forests (1879)