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[1Earth Permaculture <permaculture@start.com.au>]

For those that are curious about the symbolism of the logo, designed
by Andrew Jeeves, and appearing on the cover of the Permaculture
Designers Manual written by Bill Mollison, the following is an excerpt
from the Manual, and reproduced here with all due acknowledgement,
without any permission for the purposes of education :)~

"The great oval of the design represents the egg of life; that
quantity of life which cannot be created or destroyed, but from within
which all things that live are expressed.  Within the egg is coiled
the rainbow snake, the Earth-shaper of Australian and American
aboriginal peoples.

Within the body of the of the Rainbow Serpent is contained the tree of
life, which itself represents the general pattern of life forms, as
further expressed in the chapter on pattern in the Permaculture Design
Manual.  Its roots are in the earth, and its crown in rain, sunlight
and wind.  Elemental forces and flows shown external to the oval
represent the physical environment, the sun and the matter of the
universe; the materials from which life on earth is formed.  The whole
cycle and form is dedicated, as is the Permaculture Design Manual, to
the complexity of life on Earth."

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