Humus Quotes

15 quotes by 13 authors

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are… — David Whyte
Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us… — Madeleine L'Engle
The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis… — Eugene H. Peterson
You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus. — Donella Meadows
We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are… — Parker J. Palmer
I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature… — Karel Capek
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to… — Wendell Berry
The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both the… — David Abram
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she… — Albert Howard
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. — Elwyn Brooks White
To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and… — Dag Hammarskjold
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith… — Wendell Berry
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an… — Ursula K. Le Guin
As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes… — Isabel Allende
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader… — Ursula K. Le Guin

Who Wrote These Humus Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 15 Humus Quotes as follows: