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  • From: pfaf@scs.leeds.ac.uk
  • To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Zone 6 and zones in general
  • Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2000 11:02:46 GMT



Hi All,
Hope you don't mind if I voice a little scepticism about this
zone 0, 00 and 6 discussion.

Now there was a very nice system on how to lay out your
garden so the things you use most are closest to you. This is a good system
and acts as an aid to thinking about how you design a garden.

There are now atempts to widen this system to include other
concepts such as the home/external world. I am not convinced that
such an extension really acts as an aid to thinking. It seems a little
more like trying to simplify the world to fit into a rather rigid system.
There is a touch of religious thinking trying to explain the whole
world in terms of the gosple of zones.

Such a stratergy is dangerious on a number of counts:
it creates an arcane language for permaculture praticioners making
permaculture seem more misterious to outsiders than it really is;
it adds a bit of a hippy dimension to permaculture - the real strength
of permaculture is a gradening system adding this additional language
destracts from the real core of permaculture; it oversimplifies
the interaction of the garden with the interiour and external worlds;
it encourages the idea of permaculture as a universal system when
there are many much better models out there already.

So whats so good about the labels Zone 0, 00 and 6 when there
are perfectly adaquete names out there allready.

And finally a quote from Confucius

"If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of
things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of
things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. "

From The Analects of Confucius Book 13, Verse 3 see
http://biomail.ucsd.edu/~jendres/lunyu-13-3.html


In peace

Rich

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