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Bill Mollison

“Should we tamper with nature?” is no longer a question – we’ve tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
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Earth Faces Question
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
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
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 mine is a very rich life.
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Life Mine Rich Thinking
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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Country Emotion Knows Life Men Women
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
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
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
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
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
Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
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Bloody Even Way Wronger
If you’re a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.
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People Simple Want
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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Rain Responsible Tree
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
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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Growing Kitchen Looks

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