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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
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Farmer
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Stanley
Tasmania
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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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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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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 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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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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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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