We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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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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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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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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Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions.
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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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When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn’t write it down fast enough.
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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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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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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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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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Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots.
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It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.
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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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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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