Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity – you couldn’t flush the toilet without it. It’s a huge dependency situation.
BILL MOLLISONAnarchy 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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I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don’t understand anything about where we live, and we don’t want to.
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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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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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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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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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I think mine is a very rich life.
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We have to let nature put what’s left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
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That we don’t design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
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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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Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots.
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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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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
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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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