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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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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the…
— Annie Besant
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts.
— Ray Wilkins
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I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint…
— Dwight Schultz
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Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a…
— Paola Antonelli
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I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship…
— Ellsworth Kelly
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Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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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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. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe.…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.
— Richard R. Nelson
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As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.
— Mark Epstein
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