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It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

Bill Mollison

The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, “Permaculture Two is a seditious book.” And I said, “At last someone understands what permaculture’s about.”
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Book Writing Years
We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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Catastrophes Spectacular Talent
They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.
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Communicates Experience Forest Hand
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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Thinking Want Wish
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
I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.
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People Spoiled Urban
I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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People Philosophers Teach
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
You can’t live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they’ve got to rethink the whole basis of how they’re going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.
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Bushmen Helping Permaculture
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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Garden People Philosopher
I think mine is a very rich life.
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Life Mine Rich Thinking
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
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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Encounter Process Reactive
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
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Forests Lose Teacher
We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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Insurmountable Opportunity

It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

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It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

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