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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.

Bill Mollison

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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Failing Law People Really
You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political.
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Amount Cost Energy Ourselves Provide
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
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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One Rainwater Thing
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
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
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Agriculture Country Poison
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.
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Garden People Philosopher
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
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Consciousness Morality Nonsense
There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
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Believe People Time Wasting
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 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
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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Rain Responsible Tree
If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they’ll die in the next fire, or where you can’t get water to them. Or they’ll sit in all the dam sites. Or they’ll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
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Fire Water Wind
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
That we don’t design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
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Agriculture Design Eerie
Anything that’s left that’s remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It’s not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
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Cutting Forests Lasts

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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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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