I never listened to what they were saying – I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.
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To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
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To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one’s needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.
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My students are constantly amazing me.
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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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I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.
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We don’t have any power of creation – we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.
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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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A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.
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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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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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Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living.
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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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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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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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