tools and the meaningfullness of life

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"instead of judging a clothes dryer for how well it dries your clothes compared to another clothes dryer, we should also judge it for how it affects the meaningfulness of your life, the society it is part of, and the rest of life on this planet"
Ran Prieur on TechJudge
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connections between all things

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"Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small- scale intensive systems which are labour efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections, and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things."
Bill Mollison, Introduction to Permaculture
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the birth of a new cultural paradigm

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“when an adolescent sense of immortality and values of speed, novelty and endless growth define a whole civilisation, I think we are close to its demise and the birth of a new cultural paradigm. Watch it slowly unfold"

David Holmgren, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
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it is possible to create buildings that are truly fitted to people

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If it is possible to create buildings that are truly fitted to people - and it is - then why is the well-being of people not central to our ethics as designers?
-Chris Travis, Your Brain on Architecture
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deathless food, immortal food...

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The challenge though is that how do you distinguish real food, because now you have all of these edible food-like substances on the shelves, the ones that carry the health claims... These are products of food science, the stuff in the middle of the supermarket, the stuff that doesn't go bad for a year - deathless food, immortal food... The insects the bacteria, they're not interested in it because it has no nutritional value for them.
Micheal Pollan, on Democracy Now
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The real food is not being advertised

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You can't underestimate [the Food Industry's] ability to turn any critique into a marketing strategy. So I've had to update my rules... My new suggestion is that if you want to avoid [unhealthy processed food], simply don't buy any food you've ever seen advertised. 94% of all ads for food go towards processed food, I mean the broccoli growers don't have money for ad budgets. The real food is not being advertised and that's all you need to know... Eat real food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
Micheal Pollan, on Democracy Now
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Sobonfu Some, "The Spirit of Intimacy"

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"In Burkina Faso a relastionship is considered good if it makes it easier for both people to contribute their gifts to the community."
Sobonfu Some, "The Spirit of Intimacy"
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.

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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
-Arundhati Roy
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Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it

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Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as soon as one says its name; it loves to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it is called.
-Jean Dubuffet
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Live as if...Learn as if...

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever.

-Mahatma Gandhi
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of

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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of
doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"He who desires and acts not breeds pestilence."
-William Blake
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"To know and not to do is not to know.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
-Chinese Proverb

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that love which is born of slow comprehension

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"Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension."
Joan Miro
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, is in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger..."

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, is in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are
not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is
not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers,
the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children…. Under the
cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of
iron."

~ Dwight Eisenhower
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The great shock of twentieth century science has been

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"The great shock of twentieth century science has been that systems cannot be understood by analysis. The properties of the parts are not intrinsic properties but can be understood only within the larger context of the whole."
Fritjof Capra, Web of Life
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"...in Washington, if you love Obama, you will destroy him by leaving him alone, holding the bag on change."

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"...in Washington, if you love Obama... you will destroy him by leaving him alone, holding the bag on change."
Eugene Jarecki, director of Why We Fight
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via: Truthdig

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'in chaos lies unparalleled opportunity for imposing creative order'

Bill Mollison
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The Tao of Physics

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“The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.”

Fritjof Capra
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"So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political. There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends."

Bill Mollison
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"Painting embodies in it, all of the forms of nature"
Leonardo da Vinci
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"A fool sees not the same tree as the wise man sees."

William Blake
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"I must create my own System, or be enslaved by another Man's. I
will not Reason and Compare - my business is to Create!"

William Blake, Jerusalem
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To believe something, and not live it, is dishonest.

Mahatma Ghandi
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Ghandi
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Mahatma Ghandi
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May God us keep
from single vision and Newton's sleep

William Blake
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"He who desires and acts not breeds pestilence."
-William Blake
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-William Blake
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"Critique without vision is complicitous with dominance.
Critique is the compost for wise vision which invites us all to join the dance."
Caroline Casey (http://www.coyotenetworknews.com)
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