Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
BILL MOLLISONI confess to a rare problem – gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me – but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves.
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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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The worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
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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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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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We have to let nature put what’s left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
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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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Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
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The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, “Permaculture Two is a seditious book.” And I said, “At last someone understands what permaculture’s about.”
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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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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 think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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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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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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There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help.
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Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
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