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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
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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 we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
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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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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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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.
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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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Pollution is an unused resource.
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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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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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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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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
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