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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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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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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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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
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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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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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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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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 don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.
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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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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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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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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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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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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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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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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
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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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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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