« All Old Tree Quotes
·
David Abram's Page
Old Tree Quotes by David Abram
1 Old Tree quote by David Abram
More Quotes by David Abram
David Abram has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events…
-
It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each…
-
Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
-
Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings…
-
Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing…
-
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is…
-
Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And…
-
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…
See all 25 quotes by David Abram »
More Old Tree Quotes
Popular Old Tree quotes from across the collection:
-
My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
— Dennis Rodman
-
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
-
Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of…
— Kim Novak
-
A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life…
— George Orwell
-
I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song…
— Richard Jefferies
-
There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to…
— David Abram
-
I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret…
— Hélder Câmara
-
The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
See all Old Tree Quotes »
Browse David Abram Quotes by Category