Women spend the money of society on its goods.
BILL MOLLISONI confess to a rare problem – gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me – but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that’s a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand.
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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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We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
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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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I’m certain I don’t know what permaculture is. That’s what I like about it – it’s not dogmatic. But you’ve got to say it’s about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.
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You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way.
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Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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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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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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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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We don’t have any power of creation – we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.
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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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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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Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
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