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Women spend the money of society on its goods.

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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
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Stanley
Tasmania
Australia
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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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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.
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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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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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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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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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