[And of course, the distinction between the two is so obvious to Devero that for a moment he flounders over how to describe it. But he hasn't been here as long as he has-- and spent as long intimately involved with someone generally tech ignorant as his fiance-- without getting a little experience figuring out how to describe this stuff.]

Organic is more like... a direct product of a living thing. Like, wool is an organic product because you can pretty much use it the way it is when it comes off the sheep. But metal, even if it's found in nature, has to go through a lot of processing before it's in a form that can even be used to make things.

Glass too-- yeah, a lucky lightning strike on a beach can make glass, but you sure can't use that glass as the window in your bedroom. You see?