A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane. - Toby Hemenway

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President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.

Toby Hemenway

A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.

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Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance

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Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet's green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.

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Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the philosophy can use to meet their goals and design a world in which human needs are met while enhancing the health of this miraculous planet that supports us.

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I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where. . . we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.

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Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.

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