Viktor Schauberger - A Life of Learning from Nature

I have reviewed a number of books about Viktor Schauberger since Alick Bartholomew began publishing these in the early 1990s. His own book came out a couple of years ago, and he writes the foreword for this one. Readers unfamiliar with Schauberger will find this an excellent place to start. The author brings in biographical insights and explains the context in which his work arose. The text is also interspersed with some stimulating quotations and hand drawings. She brings out the influence of Goethe in a way that clarifies the parallels with contemporary Goethean science. His basic vision and philosophy was to understand the processes of nature from within, and then to devise technologies that imitated these processes. He contended that modern civilisation is based on destructive forms of energy use and technological exploitation, which can only take us down a correspondingly destructive path. As one who is convinced that our attitude to nature must undergo a complete revolution, I regard the work of Schauberger as essential reading.