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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

Bill Mollison

Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions.
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Alcohol Freezing Ice Water
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
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Agriculture Ecosystems Order
If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.
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Ocean Right Space
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Deep Understanding Wealth World
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
I think mine is a very rich life.
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Life Mine Rich Thinking
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn’t write it down fast enough.
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Brain Ideas Writing
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
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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Agriculture College Earth
My students are constantly amazing me.
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Amazing Constant Students
When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don’t grow their own vegetables, in fact they’re not deep ecologists – they’re my enemies.
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Car Enemy Vegetables
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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One Rainwater Thing
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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Children Decision Responsibility
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
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living.
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Creating Renewal Technology Urban
I confess to a rare problem – gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me – but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves.
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Air Confess Fall Moving

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