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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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What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.
— Rahel Varnhagen
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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…
— David Abram
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Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our…
— Charles Dickens
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In the Old Language, she hissed, “If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you…
— J R Ward
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Im old fashioned, I love the moonlight. I love the old fashioned things. The sound of rain upon a window pane. The…
— Beegie Adair
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our…
— Charles Dickens
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The rain makes all things beautiful, the grass and flowers too. But if rain really makes all things beautiful, I wished it…
— Alex Low
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