Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig, typically referred to as Leunig, is an Australian cartoonist, poet and cultural commentator. His best known works include The Adventures of Vasco Pyjama and the Curly Flats series. He was declared an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1999...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth2 June 1945
CountryAustralia
believe broad cultural early founded relationship stake vital
I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.
bright creeping lights love unless
I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
religion
I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.
understood
I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.
totally
I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.
contend deeply ear modern nose organ sensitive
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear - such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with.
I had a few ducks as a kid.
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If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.
itself misses
If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.
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I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.
happiness
Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.
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I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly imagine.
became changed couple heard ill people truth
How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.'
loony regarded
I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.