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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 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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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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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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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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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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It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
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The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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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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Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.
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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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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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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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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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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Pollution is an unused resource.
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