CULTURE: from the Latin cultus, which means care.
Daniel Coyle • The Culture Code
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CULTURE: from the Latin cultus, which means care.
The word culture itself comes from the root cultivate — as in to grow with intention
To cultivate is to humanise the wilderness and promote the life-enhancing aspects of the environment. You could say that it marks the very origins of culture. The word ‘culture’, after all, is derived from working the soil and the growing and tending of plants.
Sue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
“Cultivation,” “culture,” these words—our sense of what we can cultivate maybe has changed over time but this word that sort of originates with cultivating the land in order to grow crops has so many more broader applications. We cultivate certain values in our children that we want to manifest in the next generation. Culture is any information tha... See more