If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.
BILL MOLLISONWe’re only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living.
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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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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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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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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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There are only four things in all cleaners – whether it’s shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn’t matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label.
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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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There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.
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I think it’s pointless asking questions like “Will humanity survive?” It’s purely up to people – if they want to, they can, if they don’t want to, they won’t.
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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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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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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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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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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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