How could you not find places for inspiration or contemplation on this wonderful campus? And what a logo: SEEK WISDOM!

The inclusion of this page in no way suggests that this website has any official status with the University of Western Australia. I have loved working at this institution for its scholarship, the architecture and magnificent grounds, but this is an entirely personal venture.
The very grand Winthrop Hall
And the reflection pond in front of it
"Reflection" in this scholarly institution has a double meaning. Get it?
And what does this wise gentleman have to say?
No wonder everybody bows as they pass. Well, I do, anyway.
Inside the grand hall is not too shabby, either.
A wonderful place for functions, but absolutely inspiring for a graduation ceremony - of which I don't yet have a photo.
On the banks of the Swan River - which flows past Perth (background), King's Park (left), UWA, and on to the right to the Indian Ocean at Fremantle
Most people on the planet think that swans are white
Let's go outside and walk around the amazing campus ..
Tropical garden
This giant is a Moreton bay fig tree
And a non-native liquid amber in early winter - that's June for those of you in the northern hemisphere
Having a wedding or a drama performance? The Sunken Garden.
Where it all happens .... Chemistry
And the floor tiling in the superb atrium of the Chemistry and Biochemistry building has unusual five-fold symmetry (as well as some idiot sleeping). Can you pick it out?
A frieze in the limestone walls of the original chemistry building has representations of the greatest chemists from the past. You might be able to read their names?
But just in case you cannot: Priestley, Dalton, Boyle, Faraday, and Perkins. What were they famous for?
And this frieze in the original physics building represents famous physicists. The creators saw no need for names: the representations are self-explanatory. Aren't they?
Just in case you think that there are no students ..... Orientation Day
He and his girlfriends are permanent residents of the Arts Faculty
Some people say that academics always need to know which way the wind is blowing. I wouldn't .........
A hint of Oxford in the colonnades of the older part of the university
A thinking place. How many ideas have brewed here?
Gotta have a sense of awe going through the arches
Even from the rear, the Winthrop clock tower is a majestic landmark
Underneath the tower. Ivy, of course!
Let's go back to where we started - the front of Winthrop Hall and the reflection pond
And I thought that it was age. Wrong again!
I think that it is worth seeing again. Can you see Socrates (or his shadow)?
August and serene.
See the stone bench at the other end of the pool? I wonder if there is anything written on the back of it ......
Indeed there is. Write a 20-page essay on the subject.
And see the statue on the far right ......
Diotima - mentor of Socrates
Such striking features - especially for someone who has been standing in the Perth sun for 104 years
It would not, Diotima
Pond residents