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[Jeff <toobeeorknottoobee@gmail.com>]

Thanks Chris, good reminder for me. -Jeff

Chris Wardle wrote:
> Dear permaculture colleagues,
>
>
>
> While the discussion has basically been characterised by goodwill from all
> sides and some excellent options and evidence have been presented for open
> public access for the PDM, I am disturbed by the somewhat holier than thou,
> litigious, belligerence and antagonistic responses this debate has spawned.
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>
> We are all welcome to our opinions and must take responsibility for the way
> in which we express them. I am guilty myself of coming across too strongly
> at times, but I hope the author and his publishers are following this debate
> and we can get a view from them. At the end of the day it is their decision
> to make, not ours.
>
>
>
> As for my view - for what little it’s worth - I don’t see a lot of
> difference between the arguments put forward for intellectual property
> rights and those attempting to justify plant variety registration.
>
>
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> However, if we were to concentrate on our commonalities rather than our
> differences, perhaps these words from Khalil Gibran's epic poem 'The
> Prophet', offer a way of contextualising our disparate and at time
> desperate, views on other people's work.
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>
> *"... Often have I heard you say, as if speaking in sleep, “he who works in
> marble, and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone, is a nobler than
> he who ploughs the soil.*
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> * *
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> *And he who seizes the rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man,
> is more than he who makes the sandals for our feet.”*
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> * *
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> *But I say, not in sleep but in the over-wakefulness of noontide, that the
> wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the
> blades of grass;*
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> * *
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> *And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made
> sweeter by his own loving.*
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> * *
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> *Work is love made visible.*
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> * *
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> *And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that
> you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms
> of those who work with joy.*
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> * *
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> *For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds
> but half man's hunger.*
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> * *
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> *And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison
> in the wine.*
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> * *
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> *And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle
> man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night."*
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> Sent with love and salaams from Pakistan,
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>
> Chris Wardle.
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