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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
Anthropologist
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Biologist
Ecologist
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Stanley
Tasmania
Australia
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People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, What's your occupation? I say, I'm just a simple gardener. And that is deeply seditious.
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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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You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.
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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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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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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.
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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.
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Pollution is an unused resource.
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You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.
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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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Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?
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Should we tamper with nature? is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
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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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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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Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
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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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