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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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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
— Anne Bronte
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Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
— Luther Burbank
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the…
— Lord Byron
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
— Paul Cezanne
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The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.
— Dalai Lama
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Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without…
— Norman Cousins
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Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a…
— Charles A. Reich
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We want to see...the efficient production and use of energy, so that the products we produce and the way we produce them…
— John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley
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The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments…
— Rene Dubos
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