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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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The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to…
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The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.
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In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part…
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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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The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place…
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I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is…
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This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can…
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Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this…
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