Multi-Ethnic Bird Guide of the Subantarctic Forests of South America

THE VOICES AND STORIES MUST CONTINUE

211 THE VOICES AND STORIES MUST CONTINUE For the grandparents and grandchildren of the birds, pij, üñüm or aves and the che, human beings, yaganes or seres humanos that fly (or would like to fly) as omora, pinda, hummingbird, picaflor or Sephanoides sephaniodes, from flower to flower in the forests of austral South America, feeding ourselves and feeding many other living beings, captivated by the beauty, mystery and delicacy of the odors, tastes, colors, textures and sounds that emanate from this inexhaustible fount of biological and cultural diversity, flying over the indifference and the dogmatism, determined to live the risk and vitality of sharing the life with whom we co-inhabit these rainy and fecund forests, ashuna or mawida of the planet, we must continue listening and permitting the expression of their multiple voices. 212 ...