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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

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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Land Needs World
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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Government Reality Simple
They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.
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Communicates Experience Forest Hand
“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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Earth Faces Question
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.
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Energy Food Friend Material Sustainable
Pollution is an unused resource.
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Pollution Resources Unused
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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People Simple Want
You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That’s the last place you’ll find those lessons readable.
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Lasts Lessons Needs
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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Growing Kitchen Looks
It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers
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Dwells Principle Resources Urban Use
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees.
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Animal Apples Years
I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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Believe Interesting Thinking
It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.
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Affluent Confirm Issue Shower
Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity – you couldn’t flush the toilet without it. It’s a huge dependency situation.
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Home Modern Most Toilets
People like that don’t poison things, they don’t ruin things, they don’t lose soils, they don’t build things they can’t sustain.
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Build People Sustain Things

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