[Algorithms recommend friends based on instrumental qualities like shared interests, common purchases or friends. Geographic proximity places us near people we have no apparent instrumental reason for connecting with, and sometimes they are neither family, or friends, or potential friends.]
[Expansions of attention are hard to reverse: when something goes from idea to reality, perception cannot easily be forced back into a smaller container.]
['Be yourself' in language of advertising and marketing means 'be more of the consistent and recognizable habits and drives that are easy to target and appropriate']
[If you were reading a book where the pages progressively became more and more similar until you were reading the same page repeatedly, you would probably put the book down.]
['Alone in nature' is an oxymoron.]
[When thinking about where ideas come from, the constraints of English force the phrase "I" "produced" an "idea". But none of those entities are stable with clear boundaries and the grammatical relationship between them is misleading.]
[Cognition is not the functional output of an input world with an input mind, but rather the enactment of a world and mind.]
[Going through life not knowing the names of our surrounding plants and animals is like being lost in a foreign city where we can't read the street signs. We become isolated and lonely without being able to call out to our neighbors.]
Linnaeus lends Nanabozho his magnifying glass so he can see the tiny floral parts. Nanabozho gives Linnaeus a song so he can see their spirits. And neither of them are lonely.
[Referring to things as inanimate objects closes the door to the possibility of them interacting and engaging with us, teaching us.]
[She looked at what was left of Mount St. Helens and commented in English, "Poor thing", expressing sympathy and concern for the well-being of another person, which she didn't have to explain because of the particular way of perceiving the world embedded in her native language.]
[The species had co-evolved with indigenous harvesting practices, which itself evolved to increase the success of the plant.]
[Chris J. Cuomo critiques the animal rights based on sentience because it assumes that lifeforms are valuable insofar as they resemble humans.]
[Bioregional borders are permeable and impossible to define.]
Difference must not be merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
[Communities in the attention economy feel like industrial farms, where we are supposed to grow straight an tall, side by side, producing faithfully without touching. There is no time to reach out and form horizontally networks of attention and support.]
[Bioregionalism and acts of attention can help break the individualism that prevents seeing how we are integrated with the planet and other living beings without boundaries.]
