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and now has enabled me lo bring to eonseiuusness the
unily ol all lhinp, and lhe enlolded nature ol Name
ln lhe mm of genealogy we all beeome eunseieirs ol
ourselves in lhe nme and pallern srrearn, and ii is
slanling lo iealise lhal las onginl we ~daennine~. or
Ether :1:me and are denned by, our aneesn-y as mueh
as we deline and are delined by our deseenr, We do nui
doubl our physieal eonneelion lo eillier aneesrry or
deseenl ll is lhe sense ol -all are piesenr hm" lhal is
revealed by pallern- m be eneapsiilareul in. and a
perya g pail ol, a personal genealogieal paliern
whieh is ilaell a resull ol a pallern ol innumerable
variables.
paneens sell us rhal all is slreams, all pariieles, all
waves hm delines ihe ulluer ll lells us lhal all is one
plan, Allhoirgh we and dlllieiill lo see panern in all
:he plan, ii is there. We are lhe universe alleinpling lo
delin proeesses. A Kalahari busnman wmlld say
we are lhe drearns ol a channel, Whal l leel we ean
neverdeline lssubslanee lexeephds proeess, lhis is all il
may be) We ean only know a lew loeal palperns, and
lhirs have some wuk predielive rapaeliy |l is rhe
panern inal our local pariei-ns eannor know lhal will
surprise us, ihe slrilie ol (osmk lignining lrom an
unguessed source er seress
Finally, pallern underelanding an only whmhllk lo
(M mum“ and eunliniung :voluuon ul new wurld
yiews based on she essenlial onzrnzss ol all
phenomena, Lovelnck ilml has perhaps besi
expressed lhar eombinaiion of seienlilie insighls and
older mbal beliels whlch assen lhe lnteldependenc: pd
amniale and inaniniale eyenis The “ml/Em, and thls
earrh, behave as sell—regulaling and sell- generaled
eonsnuels, my mireh akin lo a single organism or a
ilioiighl pnxess.
The eondinons which rnake lile posslble are balansed
aboul such line lelerances lnal il seems eluse lo
eeriainly lhal many plum exls| jusi lo plrserve ihis
equillbnum in ils dynamie slabili
me lhe poinl oi View at b logisls, Blrrh and
Cobbs The Liberdliun of Lift mad; iee a reiaiew by
Warwieh Fax in The integral null denies (he va iry
or lhe exrslenee or individual organisms or sepeiale
eyenls; all erisl in a [mm o; sdeh eiaenls or as an
expression oi one lire loree. Organisms sueh as
oulselves le§| only as an insepaiable pan of ourevem
envnoninenls, and areiri reniiniral proeessodexenange
wrih lhe ammale and inanirnale enulies lhar sunuund
us We are aeied upon and arling erealed and ereanng
shaped and shaping, Fox assens, as l have here, lhal
-we mnsl View iiie cosmos as an inlinire complex oi
inlerrelaled evenrs -, all ihings “Me in aelnalily
enduring smelies ol evenls-
Theorelisal physieisls (Capra, moi conlribule lei
sueh world VIEWS, all oi whieh aie in eonllin willi RM
eurreni eihlfi ihal govern polineal, edueanonal, and
eeunomie syslenis, hul all or winch nlv eonlriburing lo
an inereasing ellorl m unlly and euoperale in a
eumrnon eihre ol earrh-eaie, wnhuul whieh we have no
meaning In ihe universe,
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INTRODUCTION TO PATTERN
APPLICATIONS
niere are rwo aspeers lo paliermng- rhe pereepiion ol
lhe pauerns llial already ensl and how rhese runelion,
and lhe Impoiflion ul pairern on slies in order lo
aehieye specilie ends lioih are skl|l§ ol sophisliealed
design, and may resull in speeilic slralegies, ihe
harmonious reselulion ul problems, or wurk lo
produee 31ml iesoiiree siren lhal we have absorbed
some nf ihe inlonnaliian inherenl in lhr general panem
model, we need some examples ol how such
panel-rung has been applied m real—l. esilualions
A bird-seye view ol eeniralised and disempowered
soeielies will reveal a slrielly reeiillnear nelwork ol
sneels, lanns, and properly boundaries, H is as inough
we have pallerned lhe earih lo sun our survey
inslriimenls rarner ilian lo serye human or
envuunnienlal needs We tannm perhaps blame Euelid
liar ihis, hu| we ean blame his lolluwers, The
shalghl-hn! pallerns rhal resull prevenl inosl sensible
landscape planning snalegiee and resuli in neiiher an
authrlicafly nor lummnally saiislaeiory landscape m
sneeiacape Once esiablished, lhen enleied inlo a body
ol law, siieli inane lor inraiiel pailerning is slubbornly
deiended bul ii is riealed by, and can be dismanrled
rirui .mpaci rule: or III sulasn- Ioiiiis i-seinnie vuiranie
mias
row as
imdssow
Puwsslurl aiid pirasiiir llaiiiin piano» iypial baileiiis iii obsidian
ei am! mi; shaped by slime weir-rs
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