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You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.

Bethany Hamilton

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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

BILL MOLLISON

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
BILL MOLLISON

Simple
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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Together
If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they’ll die in the next fire, or where you can’t get water to them. Or they’ll sit in all the dam sites. Or they’ll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
BILL MOLLISON
It still has these damn four things in it. Anything else is just unnecessary additions to make it smell good or color it blue when it goes down the toilet.
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Addition Color Down Smell Toilet Unnecessary
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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Wish
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
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Agriculture Poison
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 MOLLISON

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 MOLLISON
Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
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Assorted Evolution Mammals Orchard
Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.
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Boundaries Fuzzy Layers
The worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

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The worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
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Permaculture Successful
Bobby Vee
BOBBY VEE
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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Reactive
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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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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Needs
I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.

BILL MOLLISON

I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
BILL MOLLISON
Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.

BILL MOLLISON

Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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Challenges Permaculture
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