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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
Bill Mollison
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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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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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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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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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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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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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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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Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
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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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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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Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.
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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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