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  • From: "Michelle Maggiore" <mmaggior@mindspring.com>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Permanent "culture"
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:09:08 -0500


Hello All,
I was wondering if the definition of "culture" has already been brought up
in this thread.... I know in several definitions of permaculture, people
bring up the phrases "permanent culture" and permanent agriculture" when
trying to describe how the term PERMACULTURE itself was coined.
While a dictionary isn't the last word, I found it interesting to see such
varied def's for the word "culture", and based on what follows it seems
everyone that has replied is somehow right:
(from American heritage Dictionary, 2nd edition)
Culture:
1. The totality of socially transmitted behavior atterns, arts, beleifs,
institutions and all other products of human work and thoguht characteristic
of a community or population.
2. A style of social and artistic expression peculiar to a society or class.
3. Intellectual and artistic activity, and the works produced by it.
4. The act of developing the social moral and intellectualfaculties through
education.
5. A high degree of taste and refinement formed by aesthetic and intellectual
training.
6. The dev't of the body through special training, i.e. physical culture
7.The cultivation of the soil, tillage.
8. The breeding of animals, or growing of plants,esp. to produce improved
stock.
9.Biol a. The growing of micronutrients in a nutrient medium.
b. Such a growth or colony, as of bacteria.
c.Medium - cultured, culturing, cultures:1.To cultivate, till.
2. To dev'p
microorganisms or tissues in a culture medium.

As an aside, It should be noted here that Catholic worker/workers(for those
of you unfamiliar with the group) are many times not even Catholic and
operate as a noncorporation, meaning, the houses are individually funded with
no tax-deductible donations, and the ones I have been friends with and
visited have been the epitome of local simplicity, excellent examples of
permaculture, a bright spot in neighborhoods which definitely have needed
brightening, and are the most effective organizations I have ever seen,
literally turning nothing into something quite beautiful. If you live near a
CW house, but are unsure about the word "catholic" or have never been to one
before, visit and you will see what I mean. :)


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