The Importance of the Land.

Throughout Cry the Beloved Country, land was brought up in several different points. At the very beginning of the book it talks about rolling green hills with mist, trees and a thick carpet of grass. A river that ran down the mountain and the plush landscape.

As you went down the mountain, however, the land changed. The green grass started to disappear replaced by dirt and rocks on a trail you have to be careful on for its steepness. The river had stopped and no green plush foliage grew in the valley where the corn there barely grew to the height of a man.

Near the end of a book a man who specialized in agriculture came to the land of Ndotsheni and showed these people how to farm in a way that it would be possible for their to be more food and for the ground to be able to receive nutrients again.  The importance of the land is undescribably essential to our survival. If we destroy the land we don't have anything else. We can't survive in a destroyed land. It is that simple. Try to keep our land alive and treat it as if it is our lifesource because it is.