Pollution is an unused resource.
BILL MOLLISONWe have to let nature put what’s left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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You can’t live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they’ve got to rethink the whole basis of how they’re going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.
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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
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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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We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.
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Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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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.
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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People like that don’t poison things, they don’t ruin things, they don’t lose soils, they don’t build things they can’t sustain.
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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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You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That’s the last place you’ll find those lessons readable.
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If you let the world roll on the way it’s rolling, you’re voting for death. I’m not voting for death.
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When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don’t grow their own vegetables, in fact they’re not deep ecologists – they’re my enemies.
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The worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
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