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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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I've got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out
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Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each…
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But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their…
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Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on.…
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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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There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy,…
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As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the…
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Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which…
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To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep…
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Noting good come's easy, fools plant their seeds and walk away, another reap their crop !!
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