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It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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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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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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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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Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
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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 only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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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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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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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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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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