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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
Bill Mollison
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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
Anthropologist
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Biologist
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Stanley
Tasmania
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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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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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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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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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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
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Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.
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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 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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Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.
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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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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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Pollution is an unused resource.
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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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Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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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