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Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
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Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings…
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A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events…
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing…
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No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is…
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Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And…
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…
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For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -…
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the…
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms?…
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We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment…
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There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are…
— David Whyte
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Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
— Donella Meadows
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We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands…
— Parker J. Palmer
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I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He…
— Karel Capek
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will…
— Wendell Berry
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The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love -…
— David Abram
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The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without…
— Albert Howard
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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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.…
— Wendell Berry
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