Book review of important new book on the “weeds or wild nature” issue – August 2004
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Book review of important new book on the “weeds or wild nature” issue – August 2004
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Amongst all the beautiful images of the 2021 Permaculture Principles calendar, is a stunning aerial shot of a mudbrick house and lush green tree amongst the devastation of bushfires on the south coast of NSW.
In April 2012 I penned an essay, Permaculture Pocket Knives, to explore the issue but it sat unpublished until now. I offer it here as providing an insight into permaculture as a social sub-culture that stands in contrast to many of the dysfunctional normalities that characterise modern living in an affluent society.
Full text of Weeds or Wild Nature: A Permaculture Perspective, presented as part of a series of seminars on “Contentious Perspectives on Weeds” at the 45th Annual General Meeting of the Weed Society of Victoria in April 2011.
When we use our human creativity and flexibility to work out how we can survive and thrive from what nature has already created in abundance, then we are in harmony with the great song of ecological evolution.
~ David Holmgren, Permaculture Co-originator
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