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Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
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Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings…
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A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events…
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing…
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No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is…
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Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And…
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…
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For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -…
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the…
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms?…
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We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment…
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Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the…
— Nhat Hanh
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I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants,…
— Klaus Kinski
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We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however…
— Satish Kumar
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The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants,…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At…
— Hokusai
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As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page…
— David Abram
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History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings…
— Wendell Berry
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Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at…
— Dalai Lama
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At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty…
— Hokusai
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Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy,…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that…
— Max Heindel
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