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• Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
• A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events…
• It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each…
• Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings…
• Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing…
• No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is…
• Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And…
• 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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