You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
BILL MOLLISONPermaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing.
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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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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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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 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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We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
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Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions.
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Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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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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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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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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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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I confess to a rare problem – gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me – but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves.
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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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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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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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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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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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If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that’s a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand.
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My students are constantly amazing me.
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We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.
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We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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