The first line of this song is "Savannah scatters and the seabird sings".But the intonation of his voice makes it sound different.
This is an example of how walking can reveal things about the natural world in a different way than language can, perhaps in a better way.
Language is a fixed manmade system with it's own rules... it is absolute. This is inappropriate when relating matters of the planet because the planet is entirely relative. Language's ability to communicate is based on the meaning of words.
In this songline we hear the tone and intonation of the words before we deduce a meaning from them...
by noticing this we are experiencing how things other than language itself can communicate or describe something.
Just as the way this line is creating an atmosphere in it's tonal and textural structure, Walking can describe planetary situations in more truthfully and in more dimensions than language can, because of it's ability to make our bodies and minds aware of materiality, texture, pace, mood etc.
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