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Particular Quotes by David Abram
- A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there.…
- Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching…
- To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them,…
- If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon…
More Particular Quotes
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role.… — Neil Armstrong
- In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's… — Rowan Atkinson
- Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of… — Charles Babbage
- We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling… — Douglas Bader
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
- Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and… — Erykah Badu