"... a honey bee drawn by vision and a kind of olfaction into the heart of a wildflower — sensory perception thus effecting the intimate coupling between this organism and its local world. Our own senses, too, have coevolved with the sensuous earth that enfolds us.
(...) Sensory perception binds our separate nervous systems into the larger, encompassing ecosystem.
As the bee's compound eye draws it in to the wildflower, as a salmon dreams its way through gradients of scent toward its home stream, so our own senses have long tuned our awareness to particular aspects and shifts in the land, inducing particular moods, insights, and even actions that we mistakenly attribute solely to ourselves. If we ignore or devalue sensory experience, imperiling both ourselves and the earth in the process, we lose our primary source of alignment with the larger ecology"
David Abram in "Becoming Animal"
photography by Catarina
Spring 2013
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