If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they’ll die in the next fire, or where you can’t get water to them. Or they’ll sit in all the dam sites. Or they’ll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
BILL MOLLISONIf people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don’t listen to them that much.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that’s a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand.
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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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I confess to a rare problem – gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me – but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves.
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There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help.
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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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Why is it that we don’t build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it’s a trivial thing to do?
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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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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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I’d come into town from the bush – after 28 years of field work in natural systems – and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
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