continuing: child's life in primordial hunter-gatherer times, when we became human..
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"The child is free. He is not asked to work. At first he can climb and splash and dig and explore the infinite riches about him. In time he increasingly wants to make things and to understand that which he cannot touch or change, to wonder about that which is unseen. His world is full of stories told, hearing of a recent hunt, tales of renowned events, and epics with layers of meaning.
Voices last only for their moments of sound, but they originate in life. The child learns that all life tells something and that all sound---from the frog calling to the sea surf--issues from a being kindred and significant to himself, telling some tale, giving some clue, mimicking some rhythm that he should know. There is no end to what is to be learned."
Paul Shepard
Nature and Madness
pp.10-11
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