Body Quote by Derrick Jensen

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring…

— Edward R. Murrow

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud…

— Gilbert Highet

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

— Andrew Lakey

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human…

— Carl Jung

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Perhaps you will know how to speak this language--perhaps it is a language we have forgotten in its present form. Perhaps you are dreaming…

— Louise Erdrich

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Language is memory and metaphor.

— Storm Jameson

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

— Wade Davis

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also…

— Karl Marx

“Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote. Language is…

— Rob Riemen