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The worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

Bill Mollison

The extinction rate is so huge now, we’re to the stage where we’ve got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
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Enough Extinction Together
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
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Animal Men Self
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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Dirty Earth People
We don’t have any power of creation – we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.
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Assembly Creation Watches
My students are constantly amazing me.
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Amazing Constant Students
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
If you’re dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can’t connect them.
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Assembly Details Together
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
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
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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Law People Political
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
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Problem Simple World
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
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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Characteristics City Country Landscapes Permaculture
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
We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Government Needs Oil

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