Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
BILL MOLLISONThere is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.
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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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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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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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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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“Should we tamper with nature?” is no longer a question – we’ve tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
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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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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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I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.
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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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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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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions.
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We’re only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
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Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don’t just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.
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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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I never listened to what they were saying – I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.
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Permaculture is something with a million heads. It’s a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can’t put a way of thinking back in the box.
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You won’t get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.
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A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.
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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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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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I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
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I think it’s pointless asking questions like “Will humanity survive?” It’s purely up to people – if they want to, they can, if they don’t want to, they won’t.
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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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