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The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, “Permaculture Two is a seditious book.” And I said, “At last someone understands what permaculture’s about.”

Bill Mollison

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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Blue Color Detergent Label Smell Toilet
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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Animal Found Produce
The extinction rate is so huge now, we’re to the stage where we’ve got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
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Enough Extinction Together
Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
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Assorted Evolution Mammals Orchard
I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.
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Beached Bounder Hundred Seen Stream Tons
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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Cooperation Knows Running
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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Assembly Details Together
We’re only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
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Growing Kitchen Looks
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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Ends Ethics Investment Law Obey
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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Thinking Want Wish
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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Communicates Experience Forest Hand
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
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Animal Men Self
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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Energy Food Friend Material Sustainable
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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Book Collection Information Own Person
I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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Believe Interesting Thinking
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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Goods Society Women

The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, “Permaculture Two is a seditious book.” And I said, “At last someone understands what permaculture’s about.”

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The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, “Permaculture Two is a seditious book.” And I said, “At last someone understands what permaculture’s about.”

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