Bateson’s living systems approach to ecological restoration in modern society is centered around four core premises (Bateson 1972 2000, 1979 2002; Capra 1996; Harries-Jones 1995): (1) culture is a living system and the medium in which human beings interact with the world; (2) ecological restoration in modern society depends on progressively creating fundamental cultural change through an alteration of epistemological assumptions concerning humankind’s relationship to nature; (3) the realm of aesthetics provides a “short cut” to the establishment of an ecological epistemology in modern societies; and (4) cultural systems operating in networks of non-linear feedback loops display self-correction tendencies that enhance ecological restoration through the creation of new communicative relationships.