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All Species Projects by Marty Kraft
        
All Species projects build a sense of community while reestablishing our
connection to the natural world.

GARY SNYDER TELLS in his book "The Practice of the Wild" about riding in a
pickup truck in Australia with an aborigine. As they were traveling along,
the man was telling stories at an amazing pace, too fast for them to be
told properly. Snyder wondered why he would do such a thing. It seems that
the important knowledge of the man's tribe is recited as the tribe moves
along in the bush. Each feature of the landscape relates to a specific
story or part of a story. At the speed of a moving pickup, of course, the
stories had to be told faster.

What does this say about the relationship between this man, his tribe and
the land they inhabit or that inhabits them? What happens to the 10,000
years of knowledge of the land if these people are moved off those lands?
What is the role that the land plays in support of a sense of community for
these people? What happens to the stabilizing effect of land and community
on people when these connections are broken?

full article at
http://www.allspecies.org/ideas/greenteach.htm