An extract from the book called “Emergency” by one of my favorite authors Neil Strauss…
… “But as the world of survivalism opened up, I began to realize that I’d been rendered completely helpless by convenience. Maybe the instructors at tracker school had a point. Life was more exciting now that I was learning to handle just about anything that came my way without having to depend on anyone else. Two decades after puberty, I was finally becoming a man.
As my obsession with figuring out how to do everything myself intensified, I drove to a self-sufficient community called the Commonweal Garden outside San Francisco that was part of what’s called he permaculture movement. I wanted to learn how to design a completely sustainable life from scratch. On the roof of one of the houses there, for example, there was a rainwater catchment, which fed water into a shower below. The run off from the shower filled a pond, which supported ducks. The ducks ate bugs off strawberries in the garden, which were served for breakfast. The left over breakfast scraps were dropped into a bin of worms, which were used o feed fish that maintained the balance in the pond and the worm’s waste was used to fertilize the strawberries.
It was the perfect closed, interdependent system, a microcosm of Planet Earth.”
Page 312.
Maxine xoxo
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