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People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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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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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 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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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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One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.
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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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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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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 only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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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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Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
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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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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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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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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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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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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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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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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