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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.

Bill Mollison

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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Consciousness Morality Nonsense
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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Land Needs World
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Deep Understanding Wealth World
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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Rain Responsible Tree
It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
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Community People Poverty
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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Characteristics City Country Landscapes Permaculture
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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Book Collection Information Own Person
Anything that’s left that’s remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It’s not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
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Cutting Forests Lasts
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees.
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Animal Apples Years
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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Looks People Want
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
I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.
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Beached Bounder Hundred Seen Stream Tons
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
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
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
I teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.
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People Practice Self

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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