"We must not believe in advance that we know whether we are talking about subjects or objects, men or gods, animals, atoms, or texts. I have not yet said, for this is precisely what is at stake between forces: who speaks, and of what?
• We should not hurry to divide "nature" from "culture." Scallops also find that nature is a harsh taskmaster-hostile, nourishing, profligate-because fish, fishermen, and the rocks to which they attach themselves have ends that differ from those of scallops."

Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France