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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.

Bill Mollison

You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way.
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Dog Encounters Real
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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Ends Ethics Investment Law Obey
I think mine is a very rich life.
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Life Mine Rich Thinking
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
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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Goods Society Women
You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That’s the last place you’ll find those lessons readable.
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Lasts Lessons Needs
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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One Rainwater Thing
You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political.
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Amount Cost Energy Ourselves Provide
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
It still has these damn four things in it. Anything else is just unnecessary additions to make it smell good or color it blue when it goes down the toilet.
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Addition Color Down Smell Toilet Unnecessary
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
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
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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Agriculture Ecosystems Order
Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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Skills Use Way
If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don’t listen to them that much.
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Looks People Want
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

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