"Only as the written text began to speak……" — David Abram
"Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient association with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air."
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25 Quotes by David Abram
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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…
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A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the…
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of…
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No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but…
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary…
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For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous…
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken…
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation…
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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…
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As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on…
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More Air Quotes
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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