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=IwAR1IsopJnboZFyaSeRsnLHG1bTmODPxogX3KOrlcPvMFciiT_nbTslpr8EY>
"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 wildlife guides and other nature
references. 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