Comments by nathanscripps

  • Whither tilth?

    Paolo Freire

    1970

    Within the word we find two dimensions, reflection and action, in such radical interaction that if one is sacrificed—even in part—the other immediately suffers.

    December 16, 2020

  • Whither tilth?

    Sir Herbert Read

    To Hell with Culture

    Change, however, is persistent enough, and it is difficult to see how it could be arrested, short of the death of mankind. Existence itself is a changeful process- a process of conception, gestation, birth, growth and decay.

    December 13, 2020

  • Whither tilth?

    Sir Herbert Read

    To Hell with Culture

    There is a further preliminary distinction to be made. Conscious of their regressive direction, reactionaries are always anxious to deny the existence of progress. This is an emotive word and must be handled with care.

    December 13, 2020

  • I am saddened that President Trump has widened the interpretation of acts that are presidential.

    December 8, 2020

  • Whither tilth?

    This is the question I've come to after first learning the word tilth in mid-2019. Since then, I have begun transitioning from 15 years in startups into the classroom as a middle school teacher.

    December 8, 2020

  • This is the first time I've seen culture as a synonym and find it so very apropos.


    I discovered the word at Farm Days in Placerville, CA in 2019 and have been rolling it over in my mind ever since. Adopted and dedicated to Oregon Tilth, as it was their magazine at my friends wool spinning booth that kicked off the journey leading to this wonderful question:

    December 8, 2020

  • Modern political economy stands on a precisely similar basis. Assuming, not that the human being has no skeleton, but that it is all skeleton, it founds an ossifiant theory of progress on this negation of a soul; and having shown the utmost that may be made of bones, and constructed a number of interesting geometrical figures with death's-heads and humeri, successfully proves the inconvenience of the reappearance of a soul among these corpuscular structures. I do not deny the truth of this theory: I simply deny its applicabilitv to the present phase of the world.

    Whither tilth?

    John Ruskin

    The Roots of Honour

    Unto This Last

    December 8, 2020

  • Whither tilth?

    December 8, 2020