Friday, October 16, 2020

 " To go  in search of what once was is to postpone the difficulty of living with what is."

Lopez, Horizon, p.400

 

A rosary 

of wallabies - in Walpiri a rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus) is a mala.

Lopez, Horizon, 403 

 

Malas and songlines

"...in interviews with Western field biologists  over the years, I've found that the issue of local extinction is, for many of them, not entirely clear. There are to many cases of animals being declared locally extinct only to have them turn up again. "singing" an animal back into existence is a metaphorical expression for some as-yet-umplumbed biological process of restoration, quaint only in the minds of those who believe they already know, or can discover, precisely how the world is hinged."

Lopez, Horizon, p.406