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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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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
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I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.
— Kris Allen
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,…
— Unknown Author
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The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
— Charles Darwin
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Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive…
— Jane Smiley
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C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
— Jamie Zawinski
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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The…
— Robert Burns
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