I’m certain I don’t know what permaculture is. That’s what I like about it – it’s not dogmatic. But you’ve got to say it’s about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.
BILL MOLLISONI think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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“Should we tamper with nature?” is no longer a question – we’ve tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
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I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.
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We’re only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
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You can’t get the mud huts right if you haven’t got things right where you are. You’ve got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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I 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.
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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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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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Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
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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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Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living.
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I 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.
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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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My students are constantly amazing me.
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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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