Monument Valley (2)

e de novo por S. Momaday, aqui no seu discurso nas Nações Unidas para a 'Cry of the Earth'.

"Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and its shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil's Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time, that indeed confounds time and space. When I stand on the edge of Monument Valley and behold the great red and blue and purple monoliths floating away in the distance, I have the certain sense that I see beyond time. There the earth lies in eternity."

todo o discurso em ficheiro de som.

ainda  a noção de local/earth deJoseph Bruchac, em Native American Stories told by Joseph Bruchac, um autor com vários livros para crianças, um dos quais sou bem capaz de trazer para casa em breve.

"The native people of North America speak of their relationship to the Earth in terms of family. The Earth is not something to be bought and sold, something to be used and mistreated. It is, quite simply, the source of our lives - our Mother. The rest of Creation, all around us, shares in that family relationship." (ou devia)

enquanto ouço Momaday -a sua voz que se impõe e que, imagino, deverá ser impressionante em pessoa, lembro-me das Pequenas Memórias de Saramago. a sua avó, a casa em que passava parte da infância, as árvores, uma das quais se admira (mais de cem anos, parece que ouvi, não duvido que esteja admirada) de estar agora no Campo das Cebolas em Lisboa.