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Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.

Bill Mollison

Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions.
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Alcohol Freezing Ice Water
It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.
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Affluent Confirm Issue Shower
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
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.
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Garden Hence Shetter Words
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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Hardly Mature Sufficient Trees
It still has these damn four things in it. Anything else is just unnecessary additions to make it smell good or color it blue when it goes down the toilet.
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Addition Color Down Smell Toilet Unnecessary
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
BILL MOLLISON

Agriculture Ecosystems Order
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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Rain Responsible Tree
My students are constantly amazing me.
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Amazing Constant Students
If you let the world roll on the way it’s rolling, you’re voting for death. I’m not voting for death.
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Death Rolling Voting World
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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Assembly Creation Watches
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
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Animal Men Self
There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.
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Ends Ethics Investment Law Obey
I think mine is a very rich life.
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Life Mine Rich Thinking
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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One Rainwater Thing
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

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