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You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

Bill Mollison

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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Animal Found Produce
There are only four things in all cleaners – whether it’s shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn’t matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label.
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Blue Color Detergent Label Smell Toilet
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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Failing Law People Really
Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots.
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Beach Life Sea Years
I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen – whose language nobody can speak – to be very good permaculture people.
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Desert People Teaching
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
As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing.
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Hardly Mature Sufficient Trees
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
We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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Insurmountable Opportunity
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Forests Lose Teacher
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
It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better.
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Law People Political
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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Rain Responsible Tree
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
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

You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

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