To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one’s needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.
BILL MOLLISONThey want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don’t grow their own vegetables, in fact they’re not deep ecologists – they’re my enemies.
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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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Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
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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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Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don’t just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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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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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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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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It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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