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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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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence…
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[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is…
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India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and…
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The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an…
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Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable…
— Herbert Bayer
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I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation &…
— Jerome Rothenberg
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For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -…
— David Abram
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I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made…
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