38 Quotes About Animism

There's no such thing as a cultureless anything. By virtue of animism, we are all part of a community.

Animism is reciprocity.

All Things are in constant relationship, and shamanic journey is the choice to put one’s self in direct contact and concert with that relationship.

She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.

Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion---until we teach them not to.

The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.

Our flesh has never been a boundary for the human being. We only reach out from there to occupy the space around us. Even more significantly, it occupies us.

the important question is not whether all rocks are alive but whether specific humans relate appropriately (respectfully) with specific rocks

Remembering place is significant, and that includes each visitor to a place, insect, plant, animal, or the passing shadow of a cloud in golden sunlight.