A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.
BILL MOLLISONThough the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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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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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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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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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People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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I never listened to what they were saying – I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.
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It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better.
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Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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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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As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing.
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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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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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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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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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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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