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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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
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Stanley
Tasmania
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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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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
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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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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 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 believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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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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Pollution is an unused resource.
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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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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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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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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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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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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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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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