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Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living.

Bill Mollison

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.
BILL MOLLISON

Lasts Lessons Needs
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
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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Agriculture College Earth
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
Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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Skills Use Way
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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Agriculture Design Eerie
I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.
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People Spoiled Urban
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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Enough Extinction Together
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Forests Lose Teacher
I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen – whose language nobody can speak – to be very good permaculture people.
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Desert People Teaching
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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Fields Forests Years
You can’t get the mud huts right if you haven’t got things right where you are. You’ve got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
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Country Help Huts Rights Work
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Problem Simple World
I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
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Natural Thinking World
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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Ass Come Together Up
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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Boxes Thinking Way

Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living.

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