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.
BILL MOLLISONI think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
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Humans were my study animal now – I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals.
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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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As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing.
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It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better.
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Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions.
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Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.
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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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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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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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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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Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
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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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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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I think mine is a very rich life.
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