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We’re only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

Bill Mollison

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
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
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
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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Eerie House People
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
At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you’ve got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road.
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Country Cutting Square
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees.
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Animal Apples Years
We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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Insurmountable Opportunity
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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Rain Responsible Tree
Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
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Dirty Earth People
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
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
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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Looks People Want
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.
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Land Needs World
I teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.
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People Practice Self
I think mine is a very rich life.
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Life Mine Rich Thinking

We’re only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

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