ABSTRACT
In this chapter I describe the embodied, material and spatial conversations that I have with frogs, toads, and salamanders, during their yearly migration in spring. I describe how my experience of place and time, and that of the other volunteers in my paddenwerkgroep (toad patrol), changed through walking the streets at night and engaging with the amphibians, and how this experience is co-determined by their agency. I argue that learning to see others is an embodied and moral process and explore what this can tell us about the embodied and spatial character of conversations more generally. I also investigate how the conversations with amphibians connect to dialogues with and between human neighbors, and how they can change the narrative of towns and cities.
