permaculture

["oliver smith callis" <oliversmithcallis@gmail.com>]

Friends,

I have heard that you shouldn't read a book unless it's been recommended to
you by at least two people. So in that spirit...

I am studying pattern languages/ pattern understanding, and have just
finished the Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra - as recommended by Mollison in
the designer's manual. I was very impressed by this book, and felt that it
opened some aspects of a pettern/ process view of life that were previously
blocked to me. One thing that made it especially pertinent to me personally
was what Capra writes in the commentaries to the third edition at the end of
the book about the necessity in today's context of a societal paradigm shift
across disciplines, which really integrated the implications of the radical
thinking of the book into a contemporary context.

I understand that Capra elaborates more on the qualities of the shift from a
mechanistic to a "deep ecological" world view in his books "The Turning
Point", "The Web of Life", and the "Science of Leonardo". Can anyone
recommend any of these books in terms of furthering a study of pattern
understanding?

Much appreciated,
-- 
Oliver Smith Callis

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remember. I do and I understand."
-Chinese Proverb

"He who desires and acts not breeds pestilence."
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