I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
BILL MOLLISONI could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
BILL MOLLISONThere 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.
BILL MOLLISONA lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.
BILL MOLLISONHence 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.
BILL MOLLISONI 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.
BILL MOLLISONI think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
BILL MOLLISONIt uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers
BILL MOLLISONI think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
BILL MOLLISONMy students are constantly amazing me.
BILL MOLLISONThe 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.”
BILL MOLLISONI teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.
BILL MOLLISONOpen pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.
BILL MOLLISONI can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.
BILL MOLLISONWomen are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
BILL MOLLISONEven houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
BILL MOLLISONI probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.
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