A practical guide to what we have lost in the modern world, why we have lost it and how easy it is to rediscover. Harmony is a blueprint for a more balanced, sustainable world that the human race must create to survive.Long before the phrase climate change was a universal catchphrase, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was studying the impact of industrialization on the environment. Now in this fascinating cross-discipline work, the Prince of Wales calls upon his years of research and explores the way in which mankind must work to restore the delicate balance with nature that we've lost in the centuries since the industrial revolution began.In 'Harmony', His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales draws upon a variety of elements from our modern world, and discusses how areas as diverse as architecture, farming, medicine have each abandoned the classical balances with nature that existed in pre-industrial times. From the rice farms of India to America's corn belt, 'Harmony' spans the globe, dissecting the specific practices of modern life that have put us at odds with nature and showing how these trends manifest themselves throughout the world.Contrasting current styles of architecture with traditional design, modern medicine techniques against those of the past, he paints a clear portrait of what we as a species have lost in the modern age. More than simply another treatise on global warming, 'Harmony' tells a story that presents a clear, thoughtful look at how our disassociation from nature has helped to in the greatest environmental crisis in the history of mankind.
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Tony Juniper. Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World
Harmony
Contents
Harmony 1
Crisis of perception
Ancient wisdom
Terms used in this book
Modernism
Nature 2
Fossil sun
Melt
Depletion
Elimination
Forest
The suicide belt
Utility
Eco-nomics
The Golden Thread 3
Sacred geometry
Ancient insight
Ma’at
Tradition
The force of chaos
Hearing and seeing the grammar of harmony
Plato’s One and the Many
The grammar of harmony
Stradivari and the music of the spheres
The five-pointed star
The weave towards modernity
Salvaging the treasures
A young boy’s vision
Building the cathedrals
The way of patterns
The Age of Disconnection 4
Revolution and reduction
The great divorce
The industrialization of the mind
Machines for living in
Keeping the voters happy
Complexity within coherence, diversity with unity
Renaissance 5
Land and life
Soil and soul
A Duchy Original
A turning tide
Variety of life
Restoration
Land, forests, and food
New priorities
Sustenance
Well-being
Communities for health
An environment for well-being
Complements and alternatives
Towns, plans, and buildings
Towns fit for the twenty–first century
The design revolution
Foundations 6
Natural values
Crisis or opportunity?
Teaching and ideas fit for purpose
Culture
A Good Idea?
Relationship 7
What to do when the great wave comes
Reading the world
Primary learning
The eye of the heart
Playing a part
Harmony
Index
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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A NEW WAY OF
LOOKING AT OUR WORLD
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As it is, by continuing to deny ourselves this profound, ancient, intimate relationship with Nature, I fear we are compounding our subconscious sense of alienation and disintegration, which is mirrored in the fragmentation and disruption of harmony we are bringing about in the world around us. At the moment we are disrupting the teeming diversity of life and the ‘ecosystems’ that sustain it – the forests and prairies, the woodland, moorland and fens, the oceans, rivers and streams. And this all adds up to the degree of ‘dis-ease’ we are causing to the intricate balance that regulates the planet’s climate, on which we so intimately depend.
My entire reason for writing this book is that I feel I would be failing in my duty to future generations and to the Earth itself if I did not attempt to point this out and indicate possible ways we can heal the world. I could not have contemplated producing it even two years ago, but I feel the time may now be more appropriate. I sense a growing unease and anxiety in people’s souls – an unease that still remains largely unexpressed because of the understandable fear of being thought ‘irrational’, ‘old-fashioned’, ‘anti-science’, or ‘antiprogress’.
