Comments on: Keeping Heart in Pine Ridge http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/04/keeping-heart-in-pine-ridge/ Permaculture News, Commentary and Worldwide Projects. Tue, 22 May 2012 06:34:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dougmar do carmo oliveira http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/04/keeping-heart-in-pine-ridge/#comment-169271 Dougmar do carmo oliveira Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:04:18 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3004#comment-169271 Dear friends, I admired these great culture, I live in Brasil, but I want know the Lakotas. Dear friends, I admired these great culture, I live in Brasil, but I want know the Lakotas.

]]> By: Øyvind Holmstad http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/04/keeping-heart-in-pine-ridge/#comment-47401 Øyvind Holmstad Mon, 03 May 2010 18:48:39 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3004#comment-47401 Here we see the good work of "the visible hand" in action. The visible hand carries the name Permaculture, and this hand held a big pencil, a pencil which creates the most beautiful patterns upon the surface of our Earth, a beautiful pattern language. And one day this hand shall restore all the damage done by "the invisible hand", when competition is replaced with cooperation, and the patterns of nature and civilization are one and the same: "We see then the enormous power which a common pattern language has. The process of life is marked by the continuous creation of wholes from parts. In an organism, cells cooperate to form organs and the body as a whole. In a society the individual actions of the people cooperate to form institutions and larger wholes… And in a town a pattern language is a source of life, above all, because it helps to generate the wholes, from the cooperation of the individual acts." "The Timeless Way of Building", by Christopher Alexander, page 364. Here we see the good work of “the visible hand” in action. The visible hand carries the name Permaculture, and this hand held a big pencil, a pencil which creates the most beautiful patterns upon the surface of our Earth, a beautiful pattern language.

And one day this hand shall restore all the damage done by “the invisible hand”, when competition is replaced with cooperation, and the patterns of nature and civilization are one and the same:

“We see then the enormous power which a common pattern language has.

The process of life is marked by the continuous creation of wholes from parts. In an organism, cells cooperate to form organs and the body as a whole. In a society the individual actions of the people cooperate to form institutions and larger wholes…

And in a town a pattern language is a source of life, above all, because it helps to generate the wholes, from the cooperation of the individual acts.”

“The Timeless Way of Building”, by Christopher Alexander, page 364.

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