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Bill Mollison

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Deep Understanding Wealth World
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
I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
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Natural Thinking World
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
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
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
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
I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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People Philosophers Teach
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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Cooperation Knows Running
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
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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Goods Society Women
There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help.
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Hands People Water
People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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Done People Understand Wells
We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.
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Governments Help Hirerachical Ourselves
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
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Animal Men Self
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

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