El Origen De La Cultura
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
Sandor Katz • Fermentation as Metaphor
Cultures are defensive constructions against chaos, designed to reduce the impact of randomness on experience. They are adaptive responses, just as feathers are for birds and fur is for mammals. Cultures prescribe norms, evolve goals, build beliefs that help us tackle the challenges of existence. In so doing they must rule out many alternative goal
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
CULTURE: from the Latin cultus, which means care.