Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

- David Abram

Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, …

- David Abram

The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both the soil in which all our s…

- David Abram

...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all…

- David Abram

There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When…

- David Abram

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of othern…

- David Abram

There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves…

- David Abram

Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory …

- David Abram

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

- David Abram