The difficult magic of animistic perception, the utter weirdness and dark wonder that lives in any deeply place-based relation to the earth, is the felt sense of being in contact with wakeful forms of sentience that are richly different from one’s own—the experience of interaction with intelligences that are radically other from one’s own human style of intelligence.

~ David Abram

Adult Male Waterbuck, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa – photo by bennymarty, bigstockphoto.com