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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.

Bill Mollison

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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Stanley
Tasmania
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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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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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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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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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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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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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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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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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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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The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
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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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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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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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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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Pollution is an unused resource.
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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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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.
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