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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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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;…
— Samuel Johnson
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... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.
— Aristotle
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If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment…
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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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…
— David Abram
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Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the…
— Johannes Stark
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It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of…
— Robert Grosseteste
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How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government…
— Joseph Sobran
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