From the Bookshelf of Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)…

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the altitude of stillness, and my evade lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it. The art of moving gently, without suddenness, is the first o be studied by the hunter, and more so by the hunter with the camera. Hunters cannot have their own way, they must fall in love with the wind, and the colours and smells of the landscape, and they must make the tempo of the landscape their own. Som

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the altitude of stillness, and my evade lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it. The art of moving gently, without suddenness, is the first o be studied by the hunter, and more so by the hunter with the camera. Hunters cannot have their own way, they must fall in love with the wind, and the colours and smells of the landscape, and they must make the tempo of the landscape their own. Sometimes it repeats a movement over and over again, and they must follow up with it.

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music. What I learned from the game of the country, was useful to me in my dealings with the Native People.