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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural…
— John Adams
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For…
— William Penn
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product…
— Denis Diderot
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the…
— Maria Montessori
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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to…
— Max Beerbohm
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To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the…
— Teresa of Avila
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the…
— George Boole
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Many can argue - not many converse.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations…
— Yoshida Kenko
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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however,…
— Clifford Truesdell
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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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