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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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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography.
— Frederick H. Evans
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Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of…
— Mike Seabrook
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Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped…
— R. A. Lafferty
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In battle, topography is fate.
— Rick Atkinson
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The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess.
— Alexander Kotov
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Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of…
— Tony Snow
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Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to…
— David Abram
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Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and…
— John Betjeman
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But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
— Michael Polanyi
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We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to…
— Michael Polanyi
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography…
— Charles Lamb
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