"According to the blackfellow, there is magic in everything... every rock, tree, waterhole... even in the things he makes... his spears, dillybags. In fact, if you take the trouble, you yourself can find wonder in everything. we do in scientific things... what we see through a microscope, what takes place in a chemical reaction. A s geologists we find it in rocks through rationalism. As zoologists in the pools, as botanists in the trees. The blackfellow's reverence for things strikes me as much more intelligent than the blank disregard of the mass of our own people... who'd still be simple-minded enough to believe in the divinity of Christ and the sanctity of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Ghost and the rest of it."
Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow, My Country, 1975
See blog below "Spooky stuff"
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