Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees.
BILL MOLLISONAnother 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.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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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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Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
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Anything that’s left that’s remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It’s not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
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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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I think mine is a very rich life.
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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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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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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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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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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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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
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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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If you let the world roll on the way it’s rolling, you’re voting for death. I’m not voting for death.
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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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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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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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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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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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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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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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You won’t get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.
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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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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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