Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

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

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

The shame of sins!

When you are writing you're creating beauty for mind.

Freedom gives room for creativity.

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.

Every scent is the sun's scent.

I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.