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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.

Bill Mollison

I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.
BILL MOLLISON

Beached Bounder Hundred Seen Stream Tons
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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One Rainwater Thing
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.
BILL MOLLISON

Ocean Right Space
I teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.
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People Practice Self
People like that don’t poison things, they don’t ruin things, they don’t lose soils, they don’t build things they can’t sustain.
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Build People Sustain Things
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
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
The extinction rate is so huge now, we’re to the stage where we’ve got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
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Enough Extinction Together
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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Believe Interesting Thinking
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
BILL MOLLISON

Children Decision Responsibility
If you let the world roll on the way it’s rolling, you’re voting for death. I’m not voting for death.
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Death Rolling Voting World
We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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Catastrophes Spectacular Talent
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
It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
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Community People Poverty
If you’re dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can’t connect them.
BILL MOLLISON

Assembly Details Together

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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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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