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I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don’t understand anything about where we live, and we don’t want to.

Bill Mollison

People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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Done People Understand Wells
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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Group Thinking World
Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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Skills Use Way
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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Creating Renewal Technology Urban
Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions.
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Alcohol Freezing Ice Water
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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Catastrophes Spectacular Talent
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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Children Decision Responsibility
There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help.
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Hands People Water
Pollution is an unused resource.
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Pollution Resources Unused
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
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Consciousness Morality Nonsense
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 Country Poison
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
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
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
Anarchy would suggest you’re not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.
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Anarchy Cooperation Permaculture

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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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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