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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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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
Australia
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To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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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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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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