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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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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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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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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
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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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You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.
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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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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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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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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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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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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently.
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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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Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.
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One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.
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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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Pollution is an unused resource.
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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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