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"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."
(unreferenced, quoted in Arthur Battram, Navigating Complexity p. 105)
ip: 193.61.84.99 ts: 1151407855 minor: host: cgmserv05.glos.ac.uk username: FrancisBarton revision: 1 summary: Lovely quote text: "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." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Chatwin Bruce Chatwin] (unreferenced, quoted in Arthur Battram, Navigating Complexity p. 105) languages: lastmajor: 1 oldmajor: