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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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We don't have any power of creation - we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.
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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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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 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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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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Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.
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That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
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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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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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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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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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Pollution is an unused resource.
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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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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.
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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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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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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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