A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there. It is an active participant in those occurrences. Indeed, by virtue of its underlying and enveloping presence, the place may even be felt to be the source, the primary power that expresses itself through the various events that unfold there.


The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (ed. Vintage, 2012) - ISBN: 9780307830555

David Abram Quotes

A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there. It is an active...

A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there. It is an active...

A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there. It is an active...

A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there. It is an active...