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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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Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again,…
— Edward Abbey
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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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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…
— David Abram
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Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from…
— Teju Cole
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You firs was one of my friends , After that with the time my FRIEND, after that my best friend, after that…
— BLeon
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'The first to apologize is the Bravest. The firs to forgive is the Strongest. The first to forget is the HAPPIEST!'
— Andrew Guzaldo
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Checking your phone to see what time it is, and checking it again... Because the firs time you weren't paying attention...
— Janethnipay
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