David Abram is an American philosopher and ecologist who beautifully bridges the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with ecological and environmental concerns. Abram is the first contemporary philosopher to advocate a timely reappraisal of animism as a complexly nuanced and uniquely viable worldview — one which roots animal (including human) cognition in the sensitive and sentient dance of creation. The chapter that will be covered from this particular literary piece transmitted through Abram is titled, Reciprocity, and will be followed by a post-reading discussion.