The two-way flow, the reciprocal exchange between realms. The systole and diastole, is one the signs that the earth is alive. The rhythmic pulse that fishes are in the body of ocean, circulating, growing, return to the beating heart of the forest, gravid with new life. Reciprocity is cultivated between human persons, and ethics emerges as the practice of right relationship within human society. The rest of nature cannot reciprocate our attentions. It can only emerge only if there is some sort of common ground, some common medium through which a mutual exchange can unfold. Language play a big role in the practice of reciprocity. By many indigenous, oral peoples seem to spend just as much time talking to the world; speaking to the forest, to the land itself, and listening for their replies. The modern, civilized assumption is that language is precisely that which distinguishes and separates us two-leggeds from all the other animals since humans alone possess the capacity for meaningful speech. Language, for us moderns, is an exclusively human property. From all of this, it relates to the readings of Paul Watson and the 4 laws of
The two-way flow, the reciprocal exchange between realms. The systole and diastole, is one the signs that the earth is alive. The rhythmic pulse that fishes are in the body of ocean, circulating, growing, return to the beating heart of the forest, gravid with new life. Reciprocity is cultivated between human persons, and ethics emerges as the practice of right relationship within human society. The rest of nature cannot reciprocate our attentions. It can only emerge only if there is some sort of common ground, some common medium through which a mutual exchange can unfold. Language play a big role in the practice of reciprocity. By many indigenous, oral peoples seem to spend just as much time talking to the world; speaking to the forest, to the land itself, and listening for their replies. The modern, civilized assumption is that language is precisely that which distinguishes and separates us two-leggeds from all the other animals since humans alone possess the capacity for meaningful speech. Language, for us moderns, is an exclusively human property. From all of this, it relates to the readings of Paul Watson and the 4 laws of