Tuesday, December 11, 2012

FORESTS, TREES: Natural Geometry and Man-Made Geometry

A site to review and basic article to keep: 
(AT THE WEBSITE> CLICK ON LINK TO THE LEFT TO OPEN THE FOLLOWING TITLE.)

Forests as Sanctuaries
Henryk Skolimowsk

excerpts:
"We have distinguished natural geometry from man-made geometry. But what is natural geometry?"


"When Euclid was inventing his geometry, which has become the basis for man-made forms, the Greek reason was already corrupted by Aristotle's analytical and classificatory approach to the world. With Socrates and Plato the Greek world is still held in unity and harmony. With Aristotle, we begin to divide and chop and atomize--put things into separate compartments, where they are identified by special labels called definitions."


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