“Should we tamper with nature?” is no longer a question – we’ve tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
BILL MOLLISONThe 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.
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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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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Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
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People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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You can’t get the mud huts right if you haven’t got things right where you are. You’ve got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
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Pollution is an unused resource.
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We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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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 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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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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Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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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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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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