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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.

Bill Mollison

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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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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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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Pollution is an unused resource.
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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
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You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.
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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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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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You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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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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Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
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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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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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If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.
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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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