George Washington Carver

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

American Scientist

Godfrey Reggio

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

American Director

Diane Ackerman

What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

American Poet

Arca

Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way.

Venezuelan Musician

Mary Karr

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day.

American Clergyman

Woody Harrelson

Sometimes I feel people think I live on a commune but I don't. We are all solar, though. There are no power lines. It's mostly farmers, so everyone who has tractors uses bio-diesel.

American Actor

Martin Amis

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

British Author

Gedde Watanabe

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

Murray Head

I'd like to start some form of city-type commune.

English Actor

Highlights the importance of unity and sharing in a commune's lifestyle.

Shared Living

Emphasizes that communes often grow their own food or create goods for self-reliance.

Self-sufficiency

Explains that communes foster a strong sense of community and teamwork.

Community Spirit

Clarifies that in some countries, a commune is a term for local government units.

Local Government

Points out that communes are generally smaller than cities and may have rural characteristics.

Smaller than Cities

Refers to the rich historical context of communes, especially in European countries.

Historically Charged

Highlights the deep and often spiritual connection implied by this use of 'commune'.

Spiritual Connection

Suggests a reflective, introspective activity or moment of personal communion.

Personal Reflection

Communing often involves a non-verbal, empathetic exchange or connection.

Beyond Words

 to you today, they're actually solitary enterprises, and so pretty soon I want to commune with other people, and so I'm delighted that in fact I get to compose works for them. I get to write, sometimes for soloists and I get to work with one person, sometimes full orchestras, and I work with a lot of people, and this is probably the capacity, the role creatively

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 With the arrival of Annapurna, the world blossomed anew. People rejoiced at fertility and food, and communed together to give thanks. Some believe that Annapurna first appeared in the sacred city of Kashi, or the Place of Freedom, on the banks of the Ganges— where she opened a kitchen to fill the bellies of the people

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 that truly makes us as human beings unique as animals on this planet and it's one of the things that really reminds us of really of what what it is of the beauty that it is to be human of the opportunity to commune I want to tell a few stories of my travels around the world that really represents to me

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 different well it turns out it's these neuromodulators just like the neuromodulators in that little tiny ganglion in the crab so here's a picture of the october immune system octo commune as a neuromodulator that seems to play an important role in flight and other behaviors but this is just one of

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 - So that's nature at its best. - I've never seen anything like that. To see the little gulls! It's so funny to watch them, like, who is this? - Yeah. - It's just-- but I just-- I don't know what it is. It's just communing with another life form. - Yeah.

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 a problem to you you're over here you have your credit card number iTunes servers over here and the eavesdropper is going to hear every communication between you how do you and the iTunes server establish a secret key to commune

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 to establish the commune of Jonestown in Guyana. Billed as a utopian paradise, the colony was more like a prison camp, and when a congressional delegation arrived to investigate its conditions, Jones executed his final plan.

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 They built on a monumental scale from palaces to ziggurats, mammoth temples served as ritual locations to commune with the gods. They also developed advanced mathematics,

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 love that binds people to places in this nation of rivers and in this river of nations then one enduring expression of that simple truth is surely the commune

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 the people light fires to honor and warm the departed inviting their souls to commune with them

Commune