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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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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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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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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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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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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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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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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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I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
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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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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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