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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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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
Anthropologist
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Biologist
Ecologist
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Stanley
Tasmania
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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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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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To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.
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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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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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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.
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Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
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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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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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One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.
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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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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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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
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