Eduardo Kohn > Quotes

“And it is this very disruption, the breakdown of old habits and the rebuilding of new ones, that constitutes our feeling of being alive and in the world. The world is revealed to us, not by the fact that we come to have habits, but in the moments when, forced to abandon our old habits, we come to take up new ones.”
― Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

“[E]ncounters with other kinds of beings force us to recognise the fact that seeing, representing, and perhaps knowing, even thinking, are not exclusively human affairs”
― Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human