We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
BILL MOLLISONThe worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
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I never listened to what they were saying – I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.
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Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots.
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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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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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Anything that’s left that’s remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It’s not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
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If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they’ll die in the next fire, or where you can’t get water to them. Or they’ll sit in all the dam sites. Or they’ll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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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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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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I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.
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Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen – whose language nobody can speak – to be very good permaculture people.
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There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.
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