Nature Always Bats Last
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
We need to pay attention to the nuances of nature more, and “surf its wave” rather than try to reengineer the ocean so perfect waves are created every time. In today’s show with Greg Peterson, we learn exactly how to do that.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. I'm here again with Farmer |
| 0:07.5 | Gregg from the Urban Farm and the Urban Farm Podcast. We've been talking about healthy |
| 0:12.3 | soil this week. We've been talking about healthy soil this week. We've been talking about urban |
| 0:14.6 | farming both in a practical and philosophical sense. And today we're going to start it off with a |
| 0:19.6 | quote that I would love, Greg, for you to explain for us nature always bats last what exactly does that mean |
| 0:28.4 | well so first of all that came from my good friend my good late friend Toby Hemingway. He wrote |
| 0:35.4 | Gaya's Garden and he always used to say you know what guys nature always bats |
| 0:40.0 | last and for me what that means is that we're not smarter than mother nature |
| 0:46.4 | nature knows how to do it better and we as human beings we get arrogant sometimes and think that we know how to do, you know, do gardening, do nature better. |
| 1:01.0 | And we just, you know, we have to stop and take a deep breath and let |
| 1:06.2 | nature happen and you know observe so and I learned about Toby and and this quote and observation from my first permaculture design course. |
| 1:18.0 | And that was in 1991. |
| 1:20.0 | I like to call permaculture the art and science of working with nature. |
| 1:25.0 | So how do we observe nature and then replicate that in our space so that we're working in the flow? |
| 1:32.0 | We as human beings, we think we know how to do it better than nature. |
| 1:37.0 | And one of that, one of the things that we do is we fight nature. |
| 1:43.6 | It's like we're trying to swim upstream. |
| 1:47.6 | And... |
| 1:49.6 | I don't control too much of it. |
| 1:50.8 | In doing so, we sort of ruin the system that we're trying to fix. |
| 1:55.4 | Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. And so I use the metaphor when you go to the |
| 2:00.8 | you know when you go to the river tubing or kayaking where do you start you |
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