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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.

Bill Mollison

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
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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People Philosophers Teach
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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People Philosophy Poison
People like that don’t poison things, they don’t ruin things, they don’t lose soils, they don’t build things they can’t sustain.
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Build People Sustain Things
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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Creating Renewal Technology Urban
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
We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Government Needs Oil
You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Boeing Knocking Something
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
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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Rain Responsible Tree
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Deep Understanding Wealth World
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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Assembly Details Together
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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Children Decision Responsibility
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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Goods Society Women
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

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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