“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.”
https://www.mairimcfadyen.scot/blog/2015/8/2/patrick-geddes
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63382
' Geddes’ main legacy is a legacy of the mind. Pelican in the Wilderness (1956), Silent Spring (1962), Blueprint for Survival (1972), Small is Beautiful (1974) all challenged the squandering of Earth’s resources and the brutality of modern planning and architecture. Geddes was rediscovered, with his mantra ‘Think Global, Act Local’, in time for the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 and he is now the secular saint of the environmental movement.'
Chasing the ideas of a Third Way and Person and Community and how to express it and returned again to Ubuntu
...maybe that is what we are working with...we are asked to evaluate our work and i can't do it the way a medical or social analysis might ask us to, "how do you feel?' 'have you improved', it feels invasive and not what we believe in. We do believe strongly in being alongside people but we hope to open out new vistas, new ways to be, consolidate and expand and i have always said 'we learn from each other' and share and each persons contribution is unique and we don't know the outcome', it is hopefully bigger than ourselves
His legacy is now a general commitment to careful and detailed survey of the problem, to the generation of an individual solution to an individual problem, to the genuine involvement of the people affected, in the planning and execution.
https://patrickgeddestrust.co.uk/vision/
...which entities aspiring to the description "man " must have, the African view of man denies that persons can be defined by focusing on this or that physical or psychological characteristic of . the lone individual . Rather, man is defined by reference to the environing community . As John Mbiti notes, the African view of the person can be summed up in this statement : " I am because we are, and since we are, therefore I am . " '
https://universityofsaintthomas.github.io/sjlaumakis/reading%203-african%20view.pdf
There are many different (and not always compatible) definitions of what Ubuntu is.[7] Even with the various definitions, Ubuntu encompasses the interdependence of humans on another and the acknowledgment of one's responsibility to their fellow humans and the world around them. It is a philosophy that supports collectivism over individualism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy
