"Sensory perception is the silken web that binds……" — David Abram
"Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem."
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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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Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to…
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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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More Binds Quotes
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
— Annie Besant
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
— Thomas Aquinas
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We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.
— Barack Obama
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True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters…
— Menno Simons
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the…
— Khalil Gibran
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In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a…
— Russell Simmons
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Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us.
— George W. Bush
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Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
— H.G. Wells
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