Chaper 2: Reading the Biesje Poort Landscape
Figure 2.5 The dead Kokerboom landmark (Jansen 2013) grasse op die ou einde van die dag kan beskerm. Nie net kan uithaal en dan doodmaak.21
18 Quiver tree, Aloe dichotoma 19 Anderson cited in Ingold 2000: 23 20 Gould & White 1974; Rubin 1988: 375 21 Kruiper, Communication, Biesje Poort Field Trip, 4 April 2013
Translation (by Carinè Müller): My elders taught me many things, so the experience I have gained from them I still practise every day. I can’t get lost. So the culture must stay strong, we must share the culture with our children, the introduction of nature and the environment. If you are in the environment, you must know that you are in nature and you are in the environment, so what
must you then do? You must listen, look carefully and hear because the little bird is talking, he is warning you, the wind is blowing, keep open your nostril so that you can smell, this is how it is in nature. Because when you are in nature, you will sit and listen and hear how the grass speaks, there is something scratching inside of me, this is how the grass grows, how the grass gets life. So where is your life now, you must now know, this is how I must fit in, in order that I can protect the grasses at the end of the day. Not just pull out and kill.
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