The worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
BILL MOLLISONThough the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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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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If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don’t listen to them that much.
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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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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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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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It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better.
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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
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Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.
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Permaculture is something with a million heads. It’s a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can’t put a way of thinking back in the box.
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Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don’t just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.
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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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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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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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