permaculture

["Graham Burnett" <grahamburnett@blueyonder.co.uk>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Claude Genest
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] For the survival thread...


>I agree with MArk that "being one with zone 5" is "not at all necessarily
to develop good designs.......But it'd likely help a good deal.

More than a good deal- surely the number one principle of permaculture
design is to work with rather than against nature- spending time observing
and understanding how natural systems work, often in an 'intuitive' way, ie,
just sitting in a woodland, or on your allotment or garden, simply watching
what is happening without applying the constraints of man-made 'reason' or
'logic' or worrying about what the text-books would say is fundemetal to
developing such insights?

>And I strongly agree that there's nothing flaky and new age about sitting
quietly observing natural systems and patterns....
Mind you, I have come to reject the phrase "common sense"...I figure things
were common sense, they'd be a common sight !

Agreed- it does have a slightly 'Daily Mail' (UK subscribers will know what
I mean!!! But in short the Daily Mail is a UK newspaper that is full of
right wing views masquerading as 'common sense') ring to it....


Cheers! graham