It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers
BILL MOLLISONThe tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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We have to let nature put what’s left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
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The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
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Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.
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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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I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.
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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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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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Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.
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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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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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