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You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way.

Bill Mollison

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Forests Lose Teacher
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
You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Boeing Knocking Something
A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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Failing Law People Really
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
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
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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Children Decision Responsibility
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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Group Thinking World
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
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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Characteristics City Country Landscapes Permaculture
My students are constantly amazing me.
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Amazing Constant Students
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
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
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
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
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.
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Garden Hence Shetter Words

You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way.

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You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way.

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