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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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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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Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
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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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People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
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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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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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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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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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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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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.
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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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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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