We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
BILL MOLLISONPermaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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We have to let nature put what’s left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
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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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You can’t get the mud huts right if you haven’t got things right where you are. You’ve got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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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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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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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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.
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Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.
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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living.
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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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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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