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Bill Mollison

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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Fuel Things Trivial Water
We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.
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Governments Help Hirerachical Ourselves
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Problem Simple World
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees.
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Animal Apples Years
There are only four things in all cleaners – whether it’s shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn’t matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label.
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Blue Color Detergent Label Smell Toilet
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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Looks People Want
It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers
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Dwells Principle Resources Urban Use
Anarchy would suggest you’re not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.
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Anarchy Cooperation Permaculture
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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Group Thinking World
Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
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Assorted Evolution Mammals Orchard
The worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
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Hierarchy Permaculture Successful
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
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Agriculture Ecosystems Order
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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Country Emotion Knows Life Men Women
They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.
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Communicates Experience Forest Hand
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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Goods Society Women
Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity – you couldn’t flush the toilet without it. It’s a huge dependency situation.
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Home Modern Most Toilets

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