permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

 BOOK:
"Home Ground"
by Barry Lopez
http://www.amazon.com/Home-Ground-Guide.../dp/1595341757
<https://www.amazon.com/Home-Ground-Guide-American-Landscape/dp/1595341757?fbclid=IwAR0pDgKNKTrr7E3DL7x8JHloJ3aFS6sp8kTbtz_fp1sscA_obHo8S5DsoQg>
"A language-lover's dream, this visionary reference revitalized a
descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography,
literature, and folklore in one volume."
"Home Ground brings together 45 poets and writers to create more than 850
original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters. The
writers draw from careful research and their own distinctive stylistic,
personal, and regional diversity to portray in bright, precise prose the
striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit. Includes an introductory
essay by Barry Lopez. At the heart of the book is a community of writers in
service to their country, emphasizing a language suggesting the vastness
and mystery that lie beyond our everyday words."
I recently ordered a copy of this amazing encyclopedia of terms we are
familiar with and often use. It is everything this description says. I
recommend the paperback version at $13.39 as it is a beautiful printing and
fits perfectly with your Peterson;t wildlife guides and other similar
reference paperbacks. It is a sturdy binding suitable for carrying on
treks. I recommend having a sturdy companion journal or notebook to go with
it for recording observations that correspond to entries in the book.
Scott Pittman wrote about this book:
"I think all the elements exist in permaculture as a design process but
they have been so compromised that we must invent a new language and
perhaps a new title for what we are about. I often speak of this lack of
language in describing pattern. We have lost so much descriptive language
that we cannot accurately describe our environment anymore. Branching
patterns of moving water is hard pressed to name each branch. What is the
real difference between a rill, brook, stream, rivulet, river, estuary,
and... and.. we have a supposed six orders and can only begin to name each
of them in a clear and distinctive way. The same with tree branching. If we
are unable to succinctly describe our environment can we really see it?? I
don’t think so. I am currently writing a book called “The Dharma of
Permaculture” in which I am using the ethics and natural principals as the
foundation of a true dharma of what we are seeking."


-- 
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com