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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.

Bill Mollison

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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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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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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 challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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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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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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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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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 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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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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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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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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Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
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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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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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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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