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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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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the…
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms?…
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We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment…
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When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and…
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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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Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
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Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes…
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Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen…
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It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has…
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Royce looked back down at the stream below. "She doesn't even know me. What if she doesn't like me? Few people do."…
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Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen…
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