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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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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
— John Dryden
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We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest,…
— Ernest Holmes
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We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Whenever we begin to feel as if we can no longer go on, HOPE whispers in our ear to remind us that…
— Robert M. Hensel
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Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information…
— Grayson Perry
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Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for…
— Immanuel Kant
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Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter…
— James Russell Lowell
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And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise…
— William Shakespeare
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Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat…
— James Shirley
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Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension…
— David Abram
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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