“Should we tamper with nature?” is no longer a question – we’ve tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
BILL MOLLISONI think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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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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Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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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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People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.
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At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you’ve got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road.
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Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity – you couldn’t flush the toilet without it. It’s a huge dependency situation.
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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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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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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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There are only four things in all cleaners – whether it’s shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn’t matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label.
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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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