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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

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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Encounter Process Reactive
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
It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.
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Energy Food Friend Material Sustainable
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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Country Opposite People Watched
We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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Insurmountable Opportunity
Humans were my study animal now – I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals.
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Animal Night Opposite
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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Change Food Garden
Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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Challenges Permaculture Thinking
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
My students are constantly amazing me.
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Amazing Constant Students
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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Concentrate Concentrated Open Remains Remove Sugar
Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
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Conflict Errors Order
Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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Skills Use Way
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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Cooperation Knows Running
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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Home Modern Most Toilets
I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don’t understand anything about where we live, and we don’t want to.
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Thinking Want Wish

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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