In our rush to pursue unlimited economic growth and material wealth, I fear we have lost much of our long-held knowledge of the importance of working “with the grain of Nature” to maintain the balance between keeping the Earth’s natural capital intact and sustaining humanity on its renewable income – a loss that was never more rapid than during the 1960s. At that time a frenzy of change swept the world in the wave of post-war ‘Modernism’. There was an eagerness to embark upon a new age of radical experimentation which caused many traditional ideas to be discarded – ideas that are of timeless value ...
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