2006-06-27 Playwork

"Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the 'things' of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, /they/ give their children the land."

Bruce Chatwin

(unreferenced, quoted in Arthur Battram, Navigating Complexity p. 105)