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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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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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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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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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Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
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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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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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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 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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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Should we tamper with nature? is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
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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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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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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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Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.
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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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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
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