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Anarchy would suggest you’re not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.

Bill Mollison

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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Law People Political
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Problem Simple World
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
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Agriculture Country Poison
If you’re dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can’t connect them.
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Assembly Details Together
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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Ass Come Together Up
Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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Challenges Permaculture Thinking
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Deep Understanding Wealth World
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
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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Animal Night Opposite
Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
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Bloody Even Way Wronger
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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Agriculture Design Eerie
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn’t write it down fast enough.
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Brain Ideas Writing
If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.
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Ocean Right Space
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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Build People Sustain Things
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
There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.
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Ends Ethics Investment Law Obey
At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you’ve got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road.
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Country Cutting Square
You won’t get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.
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Cooperation Knows Running
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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Governments Help Hirerachical Ourselves
Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don’t just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.
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Eerie House People
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
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Forests Lose Teacher
Permaculture is something with a million heads. It’s a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can’t put a way of thinking back in the box.
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Boxes Thinking Way
It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers
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Dwells Principle Resources Urban Use
“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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Earth Faces Question
People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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Done People Understand Wells
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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Growing Kitchen Looks

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