David Abram Quotes

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

We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

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

What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!

is the mountain that lends its gregarious power to the multiple elements of this place.

The friendship between my hand and this stone enacts an ancient and irrefutable eros, the kindredness of matter with itself.

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.