“SA is the heart of the world. It is one of the most exciting and powerful places to live on the planet because everything started here. For 75% of our time as humans on this planet, our species incubated in Africa, and then a small group started to migrate to the rest of the world. We are all African by nature. This is the mother continent.
Craig Foster with his new book ‚Amphibious Soul‘. He previously won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary ‚My Octopus Teacher‘ and has created over 100 films and documentaries.
I could live in Europe or America, but these places are empty of biodiversity and bereft of life. I have just spoken to my friends in America, and on both sides of the continent, they have lost 95% of the kelp forest in California and Maine. It is terrifying. Here in South Africa, we still have biodiversity.
We have this 200,000-year-old relationship with the wild. That knowledge is still in us. Every person has that wild being inside. We can draw on that and let it guide us. Because we try to control Mother Nature, the more we want to control her, the more problems we create and the more we lose control.
In Amphibious Soul Foster recounts the remarkable tales that took place in the Kelp forest. Before the Agricultural and later the Industrial Revolution, every human had a deep relationship with hundreds, if not thousands, of plants and animals. Only a part of those relationships were human relationships. It is this beautiful feeling of understanding the wild and living in reciprocity with it. It made up the entire psyche of the early human.
Our species evolved in Africa and laid the foundation for all of humanities‘ great inventions to follow. You must remember that every child could speak the wild language fluently from the beginning. Because if you cannot talk that wild language as a child, you are dead. When I went out with children in the Kalahari, they walked in silence. There was no screaming or playing; the children listened to particular bird calls because they were worried about a leopard or lion.
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