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Pollution is an unused resource.

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
Ecologist
Environmentalist
Farmer
Naturalist
Psychologist
Stanley
Tasmania
Australia
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Pollution
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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'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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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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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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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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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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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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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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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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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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A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.
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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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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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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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That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
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