We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.
Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies. - David Abram
Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
- David Abram
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence… - David Abram
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence…
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language … - David Abram
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language …
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
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…
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
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, …
...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
...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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves…
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