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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

Bill Mollison

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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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What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.
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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 creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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Pollution is an unused resource.
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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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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
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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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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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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 don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand 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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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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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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