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Bill Mollison Inspirational Quotes (56)

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I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.
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When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.
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The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
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We don't have any power of creation - we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.
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I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
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People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
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I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.
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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
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I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.
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Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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Pollution is an unused resource.
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.
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One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.
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Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
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We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently.
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If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
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