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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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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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Biologist
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Stanley
Tasmania
Australia
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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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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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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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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 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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The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
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I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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Should we tamper with nature? is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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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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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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