One of the foundational principles of permaculture is to design artificial, human systems using patterns and relationships observed in nature. Ideally, we should try and create a living system as close to a natural ecology as possible.
This raises certain analytic problems, in part because of the very direct, intuitive observation we use to experience some of those natural patterns. What does it mean to be artificial, what does it mean to be natural, and how do we justify any form of intervention whatsoever?
[for intro: the chief question is this, what understanding of nature is necessary such that human intervention can be "natural," with the practical application of discerning the nature of environmental interventions.]
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