Before written information and database there is a relational knowledge in which the land and life itself are sources of information, by their relations and their conjunctions which can be accessed via the senses, and then stored away via memory.
Land and life itself holds the information by continuously being. The relations are continuously changing in subtle ways of course, and those changes may be quite dramatic and violent if a given state of organization shifts profoundly enough. But general principles and ideas do emerge and become stable, so long as a given field is relatively stable too.
