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<blockquote data-quote="martian" data-source="post: 3791304" data-attributes="member: 801"><p>You are not alone in finding the term 'holism' faintly irritating, but, as you say, it has an interesting past. It's etymological root is both the Greek <em>holos </em>meaning whole and Old English <em>hol </em>meaning health. As Old Mac above says, most farmers think holistically. However most of the advice we get is based on single track science, which makes life a bit complicated as we're not informed about the effect of our interferences on the whole. I've just been re-reading Lady Eve Balfour's <em>The Living Soil </em>and I'd forgotten how good she is, she's bang on the money about health, from soil health through plant health and onto animals and mankind. It's a shame that the Soil Association seems to have got sidetracked by other obsessions...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="martian, post: 3791304, member: 801"] You are not alone in finding the term 'holism' faintly irritating, but, as you say, it has an interesting past. It's etymological root is both the Greek [I]holos [/I]meaning whole and Old English [I]hol [/I]meaning health. As Old Mac above says, most farmers think holistically. However most of the advice we get is based on single track science, which makes life a bit complicated as we're not informed about the effect of our interferences on the whole. I've just been re-reading Lady Eve Balfour's [I]The Living Soil [/I]and I'd forgotten how good she is, she's bang on the money about health, from soil health through plant health and onto animals and mankind. It's a shame that the Soil Association seems to have got sidetracked by other obsessions... [/QUOTE]
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