There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help.
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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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
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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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I’m certain I don’t know what permaculture is. That’s what I like about it – it’s not dogmatic. But you’ve got to say it’s about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.
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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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Humans were my study animal now – I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals.
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It still has these damn four things in it. Anything else is just unnecessary additions to make it smell good or color it blue when it goes down the toilet.
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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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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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Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
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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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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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Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity – you couldn’t flush the toilet without it. It’s a huge dependency situation.
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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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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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It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better.
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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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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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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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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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If you’re dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can’t connect them.
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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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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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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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Permaculture is something with a million heads. It’s a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can’t put a way of thinking back in the box.
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