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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
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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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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
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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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If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them. Or they'll sit in all the dam sites. Or they'll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
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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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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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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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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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People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
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