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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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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
— John James Audubon
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we…
— Gaylord Nelson
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Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion…
— Fethullah Gulen
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The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,…
— E. O. Wilson
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Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
— William Ruckelshaus
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We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same…
— Leif Johansson
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The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was…
— Martin Puryear
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Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy.
— Unknown Author
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The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just…
— Charlotte Bunch
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With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing…
— John Holdren
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The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about…
— Vaclav Klaus
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