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Permaculture principle 7: Design from Patterns to Details - Can't see the forest for the trees? Look to the bigger picture instead!

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I wake up every morning
Every night I go to bed
Like everybody, I was born and
Like everybody, someday I’ll be dead

Like the sun arising
And the sun going down
It’s all working to a pattern
That keeps the whole thing going round

Around, around ,around
It’s just the way it happens
Around, around ,around
Always in patterns

Gotta see the bigger picture
Before looking at the small
If you can’t see the forest for the trees
Then you’re not really seeing at all

Before you do anything
Gotta know how it’s done
Work from a pattern to the details
You’ll be halfway there before you’ve even begun

Around, around, around
They’ll tell you what you need to know
From what the weather’s doing, if there’s rain a-brewing
To how to make your garden grow

We can rely on patterns
And you can learn them faster
Train your brain to retain them
Become a pattern master

Like a tessellated tamarillo
Or a spiral full of herbs
Or Fibonacci geometry in broccoli
Or all of these rhyming words

It really blows my mind
The way it’s all designed
Woah no, I’m not religious, but it’s prodigious
All these patterns in this world of mine

They go around, around ,around
In a dynamic relationship
With the answers at your fingertip
Life’s just one big mobius trip

Woah, if you can disprove patterns
Well I’ll eat my hat and
Make my habitat into
A room full of padding
In downtown Ballarat
And just talk in scat
Scoobeedoobeedoobedoobee
Like that

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from Permaculture: A Rhymer's Manual, released April 1, 2013
Charlie Mgee: Ukulele, vocals, synth
Alex Burkoy: u-bass.
Michael Boase: drums, pandeiro

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Formidable Vegetable Denmark, Australia

Permaculture funk-swing for a changing world.

With a wheelbarrow full of dirty electro radish-beets, crusty jazz ukulele, swingin' strings and hyperactive horns, Formidable Vegetable are here to sow the garden of your mind with seeds of future-resilience in the funkiest way possible.

"So infectious that the most ardent climate sceptic would have trouble staying still"- Sydney Morning Herald.
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