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I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.

Bill Mollison

We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
BILL MOLLISON

Government Needs Oil
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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Agriculture Ecosystems Order
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
Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design.
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Design Looks Worry
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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Country Emotion Knows Life Men Women
The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them.
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Government Reality Simple
A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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Failing Law People Really
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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Desert People Teaching
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Deep Understanding Wealth World
My students are constantly amazing me.
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Amazing Constant Students
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.
BILL MOLLISON

Air Confess Fall Moving
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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Insurmountable Opportunity
There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
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Believe People Time Wasting
Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.
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Boundaries Fuzzy Layers
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
BILL MOLLISON

Group Thinking World

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