‘Owning up to being an animal, a creature of earth. Tuning out animal senses to the sensible terrain: blending our skin with the rain-rippled surface of rivers, mingling our ears with the thunder and the thrumming of frogs, and our eyes with the molten sky. Feeling the polyrhythmic pulse of this place — this huge windswept body of water and stone. This vexed being in whose flesh we are entangled.

Becoming earth. Becoming animal. Becoming, in this manner, fully human.’

David Abram – Becoming Animal, An Earthly Cosmology