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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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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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It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each…
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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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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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Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water…
— Unknown Author
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The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God,…
— Orson Pratt
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The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is…
— Joy Williams
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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…
— David Abram
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Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle…
— Stephen Colbert
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to…
— Barbara Kruger
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It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.
— Ptolemy
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