“That indigenous peoples can have gathered, hunted, fished, and settled these lands for such a tremendous span of time without severely degrading the continent’s wild integrity readily confounds the notion that humans are innately bound to ravage their earthly surroundings.” #DavidAbram The Spell of the Sensuous is a book very difficult to describe. It’s the philosophy (Phenomenology) of ecology, is how I’d caption it, and it’s an ecology that includes humanity. Not humans as being outside of it, objectifying their external environment as something that operates independently of themselves, but of the whole lot of it as a living organism, all fleshly connected. This is a welcome read. I manage to get through 3 pages before I’m writing down a flood of thoughts that have cascaded into my mind. Add a ray of sunshine that fractures air into colours, and you have fertile soil for imaginative thinking. #ecology #SiffleurFalls #treaty7territory #EcologicalReserve #phenomenology #phenomenal #philosophy #language #reading_life #books #waterfalls #Alberta #rainbows (at Kootenay Plains Ecological Reserve) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVa5E4mpvHM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
