At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you’ve got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road.
BILL MOLLISONUse all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
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That we don’t design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
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The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them.
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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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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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The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
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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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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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People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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My students are constantly amazing me.
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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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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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You won’t get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.
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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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Pollution is an unused resource.
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The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
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A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.
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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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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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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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It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.
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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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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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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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