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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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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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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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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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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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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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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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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
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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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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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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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People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
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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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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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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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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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The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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