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Sir Patrick Geddes 1854 - 1932 A Scottish Genius Ballater,
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“This
is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all
dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange
ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the
circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony,
growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we
live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”
As our American cousins might say a "reality check" if ever there was one! |
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“...Geddes
was in modern times - although in different fields - what Leonardo (Da
Vinci) had been four hundred years before: a prodigy in physical endurance,
range of interests, and imaginative powers.” ...what few persons
in any field now know is that Patrick Geddes achieved one of his earliest
ambitions: he became, in a sense, a second Darwin. Not by reason of
an epoch-making pronouncement as spectacular as “The Origin of
Species”; that is self evident. It was in his feeling for nature,
in his understanding and interpretation of the evolutionary drama of
life that Geddes equalled, even surpassed, Charles Darwin. And Darwin
was a naturalist with few peers.”
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