Bare feet

For civilized people, one of the best proof that Nature was really wild is that primitive people didn't ware shoes. .But it clearly appears, listening to them, that they didn't give a shit about that.

More seriously, what civilized people don't even notice is that, contrary to them, the so-called "primitives" from anywhere had the same feeling about Nature dispite the fact they never met each other. As the following texts prove it.

bob dangerfield

Amerindians.............................................Seattle oration   (1854)

An oration extracted from "Touch the Earth".

"... all things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man ... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. "
Chief Seattle, Duwamish

illustrations from Eward S. Curtis

Bushmen .................................................................................Report

"While on the material level he seems to have nothing, the Bushman in fact has something of infinite value - an unshakable sense of belonging. From birth he knows who he is, his place in the greater order of things, and that he need never be alone."

Autralian Aborigines ................................................................ Report

"Prior to colonization which began in January 1788, the Australian Aborigines lived a lifestyle based on their Dreamtime beliefs. They had survived as a race for thousands of years and their lifestyle and cultural practices had remained virtually unchanged during that time. We refer to this as the traditional period."