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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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Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
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To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.
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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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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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Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.
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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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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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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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