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

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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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Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?
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When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.
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That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.
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I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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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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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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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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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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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