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Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design.

Bill Mollison

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
Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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Challenges Permaculture Thinking
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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Change Food Garden
I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen – whose language nobody can speak – to be very good permaculture people.
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Desert People Teaching
You can’t get the mud huts right if you haven’t got things right where you are. You’ve got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
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Country Help Huts Rights Work
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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Affluent Confirm Issue Shower
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
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.
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Ocean Right Space
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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Country Emotion Knows Life Men Women
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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Agriculture College Earth
A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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Failing Law People Really
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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Book Writing Years
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
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
We don’t have any power of creation – we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.
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Assembly Creation Watches
People like that don’t poison things, they don’t ruin things, they don’t lose soils, they don’t build things they can’t sustain.
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Build People Sustain Things

Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design.

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Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design.

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