Culture, for which nearest German equivalent is Bildung, is the opposite of all this.
2
(Vochting, "Ueber die Bildung der Knollen", Cassel, 1887; see also "Bot.
3
"Die fruchtbarste und allgemeinste Ursache der Varietaten-Bildung ist jedoch die Wahl der Lebens-Weise" (loc.
Ús de self-cultivation en anglès
1
A woman also needs self-cultivation, both physical and mental, in order to self-respect.
2
The com-parison of T'ai Chi Ch'uan to self-cultivation and good health goes without saying.
3
They practiced self-cultivation and seriousness & owned to a bewildering complexity of attitudes & rites.
4
He understood that mankind believed in an unbroken work of development within nature, and in their own self-cultivation.
5
Do you know, he is very witty and well informed, though he says he never had much time for self-cultivation?
6
There were always sitters in his studio: he had as much work as he could do; while yet he found time for self-cultivation.
7
However, the structure of the spine is not as important as its function which is the path and means of self-cultivation and preserving life.
8
Instead we should look to the exquisite idleness of Oscar Wilde and rediscover the dream of a future of leisure, beauty and self-cultivation for all.
9
Fortunate it is, then, that self-cultivation in the use of English must chiefly come through speech; because we are always speaking, whatever else we do.