There must be a different fundamental outlook on life here in a place where the land is fertile and lush. I think it would be easy to be optimistic about life and the world in a place where things are always growing and life is abundant. In a place like Perth, or even further afield in the goldfields, (with dry, windblown sandhills and pale, brittle plantlife barely clinging to their fragile existence) it would be quite a different worldview.