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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
Environmentalist
Farmer
Naturalist
Psychologist
Stanley
Tasmania
Australia
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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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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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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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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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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 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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Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
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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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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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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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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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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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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 guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.
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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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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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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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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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