Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
BILL MOLLISONThe agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
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That we don’t design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
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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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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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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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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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People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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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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The worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
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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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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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My students are constantly amazing me.
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You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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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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When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn’t write it down fast enough.
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