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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

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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
Environmentalist
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Stanley
Tasmania
Australia
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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Pollution is an unused resource.
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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 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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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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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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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 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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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 only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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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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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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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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