Being Salmon, Being Human Quotes

“As Neil Evernden has pointed out, our freedom lies not primordially in our actions within a story, but rather in the choosing of our story.”
― Martin Lee Mueller, Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild

“In the case of human exceptionalism, the story conceals the possibility that there might be alternatives to encountering the more-than-human world through the lens of mechanistic thought. It also conceals the possibility that there might be (self)consciousness, intelligence, and agency beyond the species divide.”
― Martin Lee Mueller, Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild