permaculture

[Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>]

> This is a favorite point of mine. Who gets to definethis
> beauty beast? I walk
> in beauty, and my designs are always beautiful, and I am continually
> adding
> to and increasing their beauty. But my criteria for beauty include many
> items
> that don't register on the scale in any garden or landscaping magazine I
> have
> ever seen. I have had several very good vegetable growers tell me they
> pull
> dandelions (Taraxacum) because they are ugly! I have never heard
> anyone
> criticize Pc as lacking in the esthetic dimension and yet furnish a
> definition of beauty that resonates for me. 
> A good design surprises you continually with its own spontaneous,
> autocthonos
> beauty. Can you imagine to control it?!


I cannot. My designs are beautiful too, and yet the conversation was
about why mainstream landscape designers avoid pc, not about criticizing
permaculture among permies, or defining beauty. 

arina