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Top 25 David Abram Quotes (2025 Update)

David Abram Quote: “We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”

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

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.”

2. “There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “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...”

3. “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...”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.”

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

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.”

5. “Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “It’s weird, you know, the way so many people accept the notion that stone is inanimate, that rock doesn’t move. I mean, really, this here cliff moves me every time that I see it.”

6. “It’s weird, you know, the way so many people accept the notion that stone is inanimate, that rock doesn’t move. I mean, really, this here cliff moves me every time that I see it.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “As nonhuman animals, plants, and even ‘inanimate’ rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless – as mysterious as a talking stone.”

7. “As nonhuman animals, plants, and even ‘inanimate’ rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless – as mysterious as a talking stone.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.”

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

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us – we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.”

10. “If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us – we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth – our larger body – to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours, stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.”

11. “We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth – our larger body – to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours, stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient association with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air.”

12. “Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient association with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “The world and I reciprocate one another. The landscape as I directly experience it is hardly a determinate object; it is an ambiguous realm that responds to my emotions and calls forth feelings from me in turn.”

13. “The world and I reciprocate one another. The landscape as I directly experience it is hardly a determinate object; it is an ambiguous realm that responds to my emotions and calls forth feelings from me in turn.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.”

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

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “Magic doesn’t sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your explanations fall away: the ordinary, in all its plain and simple outrageousness, begins to shine – to become luminously, impossibly so. Every facet of the world is awake, and you within it.”

16. “Magic doesn’t sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your explanations fall away: the ordinary, in all its plain and simple outrageousness, begins to shine – to become luminously, impossibly so. Every facet of the world is awake, and you within it.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.”

17. “It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “The friendship between my hand and this stone enacts an ancient and irrefutable eros, the kindredness of matter with itself.”

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

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “We are by now so accustomed to the cult of expertise that the very notion of honoring and paying heed to our directly felt experience of things – of insects and wooden floors, of broken-down cars and bird-pecked apples and the scents rising from the soil – seems odd and somewhat misguided as a way to find out what’s worth knowing.”

19. “We are by now so accustomed to the cult of expertise that the very notion of honoring and paying heed to our directly felt experience of things – of insects and wooden floors, of broken-down cars and bird-pecked apples and the scents rising from the soil – seems odd and somewhat misguided as a way to find out what’s worth knowing.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “We are too frightened of shadows. We cannot abide our vulnerability, our utter dependence upon a world that can eat us. Vast in its analytic and inventive power, modern humanity is crippled by a fear of its own animality, and of the animate earth that sustains us.”

21. “We are too frightened of shadows. We cannot abide our vulnerability, our utter dependence upon a world that can eat us. Vast in its analytic and inventive power, modern humanity is crippled by a fear of its own animality, and of the animate earth that sustains us.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them, prior to all our conceptualizations and definitions.”

22. “To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them, prior to all our conceptualizations and definitions.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “Does the human intellect, or “reason,” really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the contrary, is the human intellect rooted in, and secretly borne by, our forgotten contact with the multiple nonhuman shapes that surround us on every hand?”

23. “Does the human intellect, or “reason,” really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the contrary, is the human intellect rooted in, and secretly borne by, our forgotten contact with the multiple nonhuman shapes that surround us on every hand?”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!”

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

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “We cannot experience any entity in its totality, because we are not pure, disembodied minds, but are palpable bodies with our own opacities and limits.”

25. “We cannot experience any entity in its totality, because we are not pure, disembodied minds, but are palpable bodies with our own opacities and limits.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “Active, living speech is just such a gesture, a vocal gesticulation wherein the meaning is inseparable from the sound, the shape, and the rhythm of the words.”

26. “Active, living speech is just such a gesture, a vocal gesticulation wherein the meaning is inseparable from the sound, the shape, and the rhythm of the words.”

— David Abram

David Abram Quote: “Acertain blue of the sky is so damn blue that only blood could be more red.”

27. “Acertain blue of the sky is so damn blue that only blood could be more red.”

— David Abram

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