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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

Bill Mollison

We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.
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Governments Help Hirerachical Ourselves
We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.
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Encounter Process Reactive
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
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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Community People Poverty
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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Rain Responsible Tree
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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Children Decision Responsibility
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
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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Country Emotion Knows Life Men Women
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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Thinking Want Wish
“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
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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Garden Hence Shetter Words
Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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Skills Use Way
I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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People Philosophers Teach
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
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
BILL MOLLISON

Problem Simple World
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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Believe People Time Wasting

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