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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.
Bill Mollison
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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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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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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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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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