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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.

Bill Mollison

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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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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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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I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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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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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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Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?
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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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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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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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The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
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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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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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Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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