The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
BILL MOLLISONEven houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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Why is it that we don’t build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it’s a trivial thing to do?
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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one’s needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.
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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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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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