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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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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, What's your occupation? I say, I'm just a simple gardener. And that is deeply seditious.
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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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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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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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Pollution is an unused resource.
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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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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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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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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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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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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're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.
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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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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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