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  • From: Dawn Shepard <dawnjs@mail.wsu.edu>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Zone 6 and zones in general
  • Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 12:17:26 -0800 (PST)






I agree with you completely. Thank you for your cognizant comments.



On Fri, 18 Mar 2000 pfaf@scs.leeds.ac.uk wrote:

>
> 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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