New Perennials Glossary - New Perennials

Reimagining Meaning with Language
As the grain, so the word

Students in the fall 2018 and fall 2019 Perennial Turn in Ag and Culture course were assigned a mid-term paper in which they were asked to develop two glossary terms that describe the perennial turn. They each had to provide a rationale, background, and context that explained their choice in a 10-page paper that also connected the thinking and learning they had been doing all semester. In the summer of 2020 New Perennials interns Raechel Zeller and Kendal Pittman compiled the terms and developed a format for the glossary. Our fall 2020 Intern James Peacock designed these beautiful images on display here.

There are new meanings for old words, and new words with perhaps old meanings. The presentation format below was inspired by Perennial Turn student Maya Gomez who designed a recipe card for one of her glossary words, Indestructible Wonder.

Enjoy this burst of imagining what it is to be perennial!

Indestructible Wonder

The New Perennials Glossary

Anthrotexderdness
Animacy
Autocatalysis
Biomodelling
Ceremony
Changeable Consciousness
Christian Perennialism
Community
Consent
Crisymed
Degrowth
Dialogue
Ecological Worldview
Emerge

Ensouled/ Ensoulment
Enumio
Feeling (n.)
Feeling (v.)
Flow
Fractal
Fundamental Schematics
Gnosis
Helical
Homecoming
Horizonless
Imagination of Boundaries
Indigenous (n.)
Indigenous Science

Integration
Intention
Intentional Adaptation
Interconnectedness
Interdependence
Lacerated
Life
Metapresence
Multiary
Mutualism
Nature
Ontological Collective Duty
Perennial Education
Plasticity

Polycyclical
Productive
Reading the Land
Reciprocity
Restraining
Reverence
Right Relationship w. Agriculture
Roots
Saunter
Shift away from Object Thinking
Symmathesy
Systems Thinking
Thriveability
Turn towards Sustainable Agriculture

Anthrotexderdness

1) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege

Animacy

1) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
2) Animism and The Alphabet, Abrams

Autocatalysis/
Autocatalytic Cycle

1) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege
2) A Third Window, Ulanowicz
3) Nature as Measure, Jackson

Biomodelling

1) Biomimicry's Surprising Lessons, Benyus

Ceremony

1) Emergent Strategy, Brown

Changeable Consciousness

1) Nature as Measure, Jackson
2) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege
3) Goethe's Way of Science, Hensel

Christian
Perennialism

1) Don't Think of an Elephant, Lakoff

Community

1) Emergent Strategy, Brown
2) Culture as Applied Ontology, Feibleman

Consent

1) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
2) Transforming Human Life, Jackson et al.
3) Good, Wild, Sacred, Snyder

Crisymed

1) Emergent Strategy, Brown

Degrowth

1) Small is Beautiful, Schumacher
2) Degrowth, Mastini

Dialogue

1) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege
2) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
3) Walking, Thoreau

Ecological
Worldview

1) Nature as Measure, Jackson

Emerge

1) Wonder, Fleischman
2) A Third Window, Ulanowicz
3) Sacred Ecology, Berkes
4) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege

Ensouled/
Ensoulment

1) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege
2) Transforming Human Life, Jackson et al.
3) Earth Alive, Rowe
4) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer

Enumio

1) Is the Future of Agriculture Perennial, Crews et al.

Feeling (n.)

1) Wonder, Fleischman
2) A Defense of Ontology, Feibleman
3) Nature Lifeless, Whitehead

Feeling (v.)

1) Symbiotic Earth, Margulis
2) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege

Flow

1) Emergent Strategy, Brown

Fractal

1) Emergent Strategy, Brown
2) The Great Learning, Confucius
3) The Universe in a Single Atom, The Dalai Lama

Fundamental Schematics

1) Toward a Common Covenant, Jackson
2) Don't Think of an Elephant, Lakoff

Gnosis

1) The Spell of the Sensuous, Abram

Helical

1) The Universe in a Single Atom, The Dalai Lama
2) The Practice of the Wild, Snyder

Homecoming

1) Wonder, Fleischman
2) Nature as Measure, Jackson
3) Practice of the Wild, Snyder
4) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer

Horizonless

1) Wonder, Fleischman
2) Walking, Thoreau
3) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege
4) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
5) Symbiotic Earth, Margulis
6) Nature as Measure, Jackson
7) A Defense of Ontology, Feibleman

Imagination of Boundaries

1) The Marriage of Sense and Thought, Edelglass et al.

Indigenous (n.)

1) Nature as Measure, Jackson
2) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer

Indigenous
Science

1) To the March for Science, Kimmerer et al.
2) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
3) Sacred Ecology, Berkes

Integration

1) The Window, Panikkar
2) Twelve Principles for Understanding the Universe, Berry

Intention

1) Active Hope, Macy & Johnstone
2) The Great Learning, Confucius
3) Emergent Strategy, Brown

Intentional
Adaptation

1) Emergent Strategy, Brown

Interconnectedness

1) God or Nature, Vitek
2) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
3) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege
4) What on Earth is Life, Rowe

Interdependence

1) Emergent Strategy, Brown
2) God or Nature, Vitek
3) Earth Alive, Rowe
4) Third Culture, Margulis
5) What is Life, Margulis & Sagan
6) Symbiotic Earth, Hummingbird Films
7) Braiding Sweetgrassm Kimmerer

Lacerated

Life

1) Earth Alive, Rowe
2) Transforming Human Life, Jackson et al.
3) Modes of Thought, Whitehead

Metapresence

1) Emergent Strategy, Brown
2) Marriage of Sense and Thought, Edelglass et al.

Multiary

1) Transforming Human Life, Jackson et al.
2) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
3) Symbiotic Earth, Margulis

Mutualism

1) Symbiotic Earth

Nature

1) God or Nature, Vitek
2) Modes of Thought, Whitehead
3) Science and Nature, Merchant
4) World as Lover, Macy
5) Weeds, Seeds, and Shovels, Warren
6) Wonder, Fleischman
7) Transforming Human Life, Jackson et al.

Ontological
Collective Duty

1) Culture as Applied Ontology, Feibleman
2) Emergent Strategy, Brown

Perennial Education

1) Walking, Thoreau
2) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
3) Thinking Like a Plant, oldrege

Plasticity

1) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege
2) Earth Alive, Rowe
3) Transforming Human Life, Jackson et al.
4) Brading Sweetgrassm, Kimmerer
5) A Third Window, Ulanowicz

Polycyclical

1) Emergent Strategy, Brown

Productive

1) Wherefore Wildlife Ecology, Leopold
2) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege

Reading the Land

1) Wherefore Wildlife Ecology, Leopold

Reciprocity

1) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
2) Land Ethic, Leopold

Restraining

1) Nature as Measure, Jackson
2) Weeds, Seeds, and Shovels, Warren
3) A Third Window, Ulanowicz

Reverence

1) Shimmer When All You Love is Being Trashed, Rose

Right Relationship with Agriculture

1) Emergent Strategy, Brown

Roots

1) Emergent Strategy, Brown

Saunter

1) Walking, Thoreau
2) Wonder, Fleischman
3) Goethe, Science, and the Sensory Experience, Hensel
4) The Great Learning, Confucius
5) God or Nature, Vitek
6) Practice of the Wild, Snyder
7) Modes of Thought, Whitehead

Shift away from Object Thinking

1) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege
2) Modes of Thought, Whitehead
3) Defense of Ontology, Feibleman
4) A Third Window, Ulanowicz
5) Nature as Measure, Jackson
6) Symbiotic Earth, Margulis

Symmathesy

1) Nature as Measure, Jackson
2) Modes of Thought, Whitehead

Systems Thinking

1) The Universe in a Single Atom, The Dalai Lama
2) Thinking Like a Plant, Holdrege

Thriveability

1) Nature as Measure, Jackson
2) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
3) What is a Weed, Leopold

The Turn towards Sustainable Agriculture

1) Nature as Measure, Jackson

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