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Permaculture
is a way of seeing the land. Appreciating the places where ecosystems
are functioning, and seeing the potential in places where they
are not. It is an understanding of what the land may have held
long before we were here, and envisioning what it may look like
when we're gone. Nature is the teacher. She's had eons of trial and error. She knows how to design productive ecosystems. It's mostly humans who have upset that balance through our ignorance, but she forgives us and will work with us if we let her. We just need to watch her and she'll show us how she does it. We need to model our own agricultural systems, settlements, and transportation systems after the patterns found in nature. If we based our development on the contours of the land, our civilization could be a builder of soil instead of a source of it's erosion. If we viewed our waste as a resource and the sources of fertility, we could be part of a cycle and not a dead end I'm not sure what will catalyze our greedy minds into creating a sustainable civilization on Earth, and perhaps we will not get there this time around. But to glimpse a world where our choices make sense in our own backyards is worth the work. Practicing permaculture gives you the sense that you're doing the right thing, and that peace of mind is the most precious thing. |
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