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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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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.
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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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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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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'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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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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When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.
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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 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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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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