Those of us who work to preserve wild nature must work as well for a return to our senses, and for a renewed respect for sensorial modes of knowing. - Our bodily senses bring us into relation with the breathing Earth at every moment. - For the senses are our most immediate access to the natural world. - If humankind seems to have forgotten its dependence upon the earthly community of beings, it can only be because we’ve forgotten (or dismissed as irrelevant) the sensory dimension of our lives. - The senses are what is most WILD in us — capacities that we share, in some manner, not only with other primates but with most other entities in the living landscape, from earthworms to eagles. - Flowers responding to sunlight, tree roots extending rootlets in search of water, even the chemotaxis of a simple bacterium — here, too, are sensation and sensitivity, distant variants of our own sentience. - Apart from breathing and eating, the senses are our most intimate link with the living land, the primary way that the earth has of influencing our moods and of guiding our actions. - #davidabram #earthwormstoeagles #wildnature #wildwithin #sensuous #honortheearth #honoryoursenses #wearealltrulywild https://www.instagram.com/p/BzvWPedhJmC/?igshid=1l76fd21cm3b
