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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
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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 question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, What's your occupation? I say, I'm just a simple gardener. And that is deeply seditious.
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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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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.
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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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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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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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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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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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Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
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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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You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.
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We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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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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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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