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You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political.

Bill Mollison

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
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Assorted Evolution Mammals Orchard
If you’re a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.
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People Simple Want
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
BILL MOLLISON

Animal Men Self
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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Hardly Mature Sufficient Trees
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
Pollution is an unused resource.
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Pollution Resources Unused
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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Air Confess Fall Moving
Anarchy 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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Anarchy Cooperation Permaculture
The extinction rate is so huge now, we’re to the stage where we’ve got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
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Enough Extinction Together
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
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
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
When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don’t grow their own vegetables, in fact they’re not deep ecologists – they’re my enemies.
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Car Enemy Vegetables
If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they’ll die in the next fire, or where you can’t get water to them. Or they’ll sit in all the dam sites. Or they’ll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
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Fire Water Wind
We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
BILL MOLLISON

Government Needs Oil

You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political.

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You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political.

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