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| If we listen, first, to the sounds of an oral language—the rhythms, tones, and inflections that play through the speech of an oral culture-we will likely find that these elements are attuned, in multiple and subtle ways, to the contour and scale of the local landscape, to the depth of its valleys or the open stretch of its distances, to the visual rhythms of the local topography. (...) Human language arose not only as a means of attunement between persons, but also between ourselves and the animate landscape. (...) By denying that birds and other animals have their own styles of speech, by insisting that the river has no real voice and that the ground itself is mute, we stifle our direct experience. | If we listen, first, to the sounds of an oral language—the rhythms, tones, and inflections that play through the speech of an oral culture-we will likely find that these elements are attuned, in multiple and subtle ways, to the contour and scale of the local landscape, to the depth of its valleys or the open stretch of its distances, to the visual rhythms of the local topography. (...) Human language arose not only as a means of attunement between persons, but also between ourselves and the animate landscape. (...) By denying that birds and other animals have their own styles of speech, by insisting that the river has no real voice and that the ground itself is mute, we stifle our direct experience. | ||
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