Post by MagnetMan on Mar 12, 2013 10:43:10 GMT -5
As long as Africans remain Africans, the happy song and dance will continue to brighten the villages of Africa: that wonderful wild music, with instruments wilder still, will continue to make its peculiar appeal. The children of nature will continue to enjoy the simple joys of village life, and in the sunshine the gloom and stern temper of a colder Europe will never prevail. Sensuous paganism will always temper the ethical imperative, and religion even at its best will still be of the earth, earthy.
And beyond the human inhabitants there will always remain, one hopes for centuries to come, the wild animals which make this continent so attractive to the lover of nature. I look forward to the time when the rage for destruction will have disappeared, when he senseless slaughter of the wild fauna will be as criminal and contrary to public opinion as cruelty to humans, and when those who love the wilds and their shy denizens and intimate ways will come from all parts of the earth to find peace and refreshment in Africa.
In the stress and strain of civilization, the nervous tension of high culture and the friction of our industrial system, Africa will be a place of refuge, a temple set apart where the human spirit can once more practice nature worship, and enjoy peace and quietude.
Africa in spite of all change will still remain Africa, and its most distinctive features among continents will continue to be its untamed wildness, its aloofness and solitude, its mysterious, eerie, brooding spirit
General Jan Cristian Smuts
Boer War leader
Prime Minister of South Africa
author of the United Nations Charter
And beyond the human inhabitants there will always remain, one hopes for centuries to come, the wild animals which make this continent so attractive to the lover of nature. I look forward to the time when the rage for destruction will have disappeared, when he senseless slaughter of the wild fauna will be as criminal and contrary to public opinion as cruelty to humans, and when those who love the wilds and their shy denizens and intimate ways will come from all parts of the earth to find peace and refreshment in Africa.
In the stress and strain of civilization, the nervous tension of high culture and the friction of our industrial system, Africa will be a place of refuge, a temple set apart where the human spirit can once more practice nature worship, and enjoy peace and quietude.
Africa in spite of all change will still remain Africa, and its most distinctive features among continents will continue to be its untamed wildness, its aloofness and solitude, its mysterious, eerie, brooding spirit
General Jan Cristian Smuts
Boer War leader
Prime Minister of South Africa
author of the United Nations Charter
