"We are human only in contact, and conviviality,……" — David Abram
"We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human."
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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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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 Contact Quotes
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
— Beck
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is…
— Martha Beck
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
— Kate Adie
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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
— David Brin
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new…
— Pearl S. Buck
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I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed…
— Sandra Bullock
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Physical contact is a human necessity.
— David Byrne
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