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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.

Bill Mollison

I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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Believe Interesting Thinking
Anarchy would suggest you’re not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.
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Anarchy Cooperation Permaculture
Anything that’s left that’s remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It’s not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
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Cutting Forests Lasts
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
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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Fields Forests Years
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
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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Blue Color Detergent Label Smell Toilet
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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People Philosophy Poison
Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.
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Concentrate Concentrated Open Remains Remove Sugar
I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.
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Beached Bounder Hundred Seen Stream Tons
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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Brain Ideas Writing
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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Bloody Even Way Wronger
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
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
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
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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Home Modern Most Toilets

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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