We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a natio — Lewis Hyde, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a natio — Lewis Hyde, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a natio — Lewis Hyde, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a natio — Lewis Hyde, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a natio — Lewis Hyde, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
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We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation—and born into the stories told of each of these.

— Lewis Hyde, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
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