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Perennial Turn Glossary

Reimagining Meaning with Language
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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
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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
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​Animacy

1) Braiding Sweetgrass, ​Kimmerer​
​2) Animism and The Alphabet, Abrams
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​Autocatalysis/
​Autocatalytic Cycle

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


​Biomodelling

​1) Biomimicry's Surprising Lessons, Benyus
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​Ceremony

1) ​Emergent Strategy, Brown
Picture
 


​Changeable Consciousness

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


​Christian
​Perennialism

1) ​Don't Think of an Elephant, Lakoff
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​Community

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


​Consent

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

1) ​Emergent Strategy, Brown
Picture
 


​Degrowth

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


​Dialogue

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


​Ecological
​Worldview

1) ​Nature as Measure, Jackson
Picture
 


Emerge

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


​Ensouled/
​Ensoulment

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


​Enumio

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


​Feeling (n.)

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


​Feeling (v.)

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


​Flow

1) ​Emergent Strategy, Brown
Picture
 


​Fractal

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


​Fundamental Schematics

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


​Gnosis

1) The Spell of the Sensuous, Abram
Picture
 


​Helical

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


Homecoming

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


​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
Picture
 


​Imagination of Boundaries

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


​Indigenous (n.)

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


​Indigenous
​Science

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


​Integration

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


​Intention

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


​Intentional
​Adaptation

1) ​Emergent Strategy, Brown
Picture
 


​Interconnectedness

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


​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
Picture
 


​Lacerated
Picture
 



​Life

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


​Metapresence

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


​Multiary

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


​Mutualism

1) ​Symbiotic Earth
Picture
 


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.
Picture
 


​Ontological
​Collective Duty

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


​Perennial Education

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

​
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
Picture
 
​

​
Polycyclical

1) ​Emergent Strategy, Brown
Picture
 


​Productive

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


Reading the Land

1) Wherefore Wildlife Ecology, Leopold
Picture
 


​Reciprocity

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


​Restraining

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


​Reverence

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


​Right Relationship with Agriculture

1) ​Emergent Strategy, Brown
Picture
 


​Roots

1) ​Emergent Strategy, Brown
Picture
 


​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
Picture
 


​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
Picture
 


​Symmathesy

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


​Systems Thinking

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


​Thriveability

1) Nature as Measure, Jackson
2) Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer
3) ​What is a Weed, Leopold
Picture
 
The Turn towards Sustainable Agriculture

1) ​Nature as Measure, Jackson
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