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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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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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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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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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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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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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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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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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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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People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
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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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Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
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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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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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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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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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We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently.
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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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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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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Pollution is an unused resource.
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