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From Quotes by David Abram
- Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them…
- Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the…
- Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would…
- For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of…
- Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the…
- There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When…
- If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon…
- It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own…
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