It is a gift to be simple

Contents

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Feature Articles

A CULTURE OF SIMPLICITY • Leonard Koren

The sixteenth-century Japanese tea master refined the culture of wabi-sabi.

EPICUREAN SIMPLICITY • Stephanie Mills

How are we to live?

THE GREAT AFFAIR • Liz Medler

Thomas Merton had the knack of presenting things in simple forms.

THE FADING RAINBOW • John Feehan

Once our physical needs are satisfied what further use have we of nature?

DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE • Satish Kumar

We depend on the Earth.

MAGIC OF THE SEA • Michael Viney

Sustainable use of inshore waters will bring security to coastal communities.

THE CHALLENGE OF OUR TIME • Fritjof Capra

A sustainable society can only be built on the foundations of ecoliteracy and ecodesign.

BEYOND THE BIG LIPS • Darrell Addison Posey

The knowledge of people of the Amazon can guide Brazil towards ecologically appropriate development.

A NOMADIC JOURNEY • Will Cretney

Oasis gardens in the Sinai desert reflect the Bedouin people's love for their land.

JOURNEY TO THE SOURCE • Freya Mathews

Three friends in Australia set off to walk to the headwaters of a little creek.

THE WORLD IS NOT FOR SALE • Donella Meadows & Hal Hamilton

We refuse to eat food from factories.

HERBICIDE, PESTICIDE ? SUICIDE • Roger Scruton

Seed merchants prosper and farmers wither.

AT THE POINT OF DEATH • Nicholas Albery

A funeral guide.

LOVING THE ENEMY • Alex Evans

How to protest with loving-kindness.

The Arts

IN THE GARDEN OF GAIA • Philip Vann

The sculptures of Giles Kent are an embodiment of simplicity and serenity.

CATCHING THE LIGHT • Emmanuel Williams

The painter, Harold Hitchcock, is enraptured by the movement of light.

Frontline

CELEBRATION • Sophie Poklewski Koziell

Resurgence marks twenty-five years of editorship.

FRIENDLY FARMING • Mahmood Futehally

Regenerating barren land in Pakistan.

CLEAN COLOUR • Bharathan & M. R. Rajagopalan

Nature gives us colour, synthetic dyes give us problems.

A RING OF GREEN • Herbert Girardet

Urban farming in Shanghai.

A VICTORY • Premila Canagaratna

Sri Lankan court blocks phosphate development.

Regulars

The Occasional Didymus • John Moat

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle • David Nicholson-Lord

Business Diary • David Boyle

Readings • Angela Zelter & Donna Rawlinson Maclean

Poetry • Grevel Lindop

A Sense of Place • Ian Christie

Recipes • Dana Spowers

Magazines & Publishers

FUTURE NATURE • David Rothenberg

An occasional magazine blending art with ecology and technology.

WOODEN BOOKS • Jay Griffiths

Books with quality of craftsmanship and delicate charm.

Reviews

SMALL IS STILL BEAUTIFUL • Kirkpatrick Sale

Review of Small is Beautiful

SCIENCE IN SERVITUDE • Mary Tasker

Review of Playing Safe: Science and the Environment

GOOD ENOUGH CITIES • Herbert Girardet

Review of Building the 21st-Century Home London, Pathways to the Future

THE RISKS WE RUN • Charles Handy

Review of Democracy at Risk

SCIENTIFIC SPIRITUALITY • Chris Clarke

Review of SQ - Spiritual Intelligence

PEOPLE AND TREES • Oliver Rathmill

Review of The Time of Trees - A Photographic Essay

PAIN AND PRAYERS • Colin Hodgetts

Review of The Pool of Memory

DANGERS OF DEVELOPMENT • Marian Van Eyk McCain

Review of The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy

ORDER AND CHAOS • Michael Shaw Bond

Review of The Blackwinged Night

PEOPLE'S CRAFT • John Lane

Review of Traditional Pottery of India The Golden Age of Irish Art

SUBLIME TRUTHS • Jordi Pigem

Review of Verses from the Center

• Kim Taplin

Review of Landscape with Portraits

• John Lane

Review of How the Whale Became

• Judy Jones

Review of The Ecology of Health

• John Lane

Review of The Tribal Arts of Africa Chokwe!

• Valerie Belsey

Review of Cutting Your Car Use