If you let the world roll on the way it’s rolling, you’re voting for death. I’m not voting for death.
BILL MOLLISONUse all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
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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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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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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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Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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If you’re a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.
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The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them.
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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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Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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