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We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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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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What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.
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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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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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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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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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We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
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The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
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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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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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'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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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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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 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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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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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.
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When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.
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