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We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.

Bill Mollison

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
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
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
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Consciousness Morality Nonsense
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
You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That’s the last place you’ll find those lessons readable.
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Lasts Lessons Needs
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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Brain Ideas Writing
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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Beach Life Sea Years
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
A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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Failing Law People Really
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
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
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Agriculture Country Poison
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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Rain Responsible Tree
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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Dirty Earth People
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
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Agriculture Ecosystems Order
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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Asking People Questions Thinking
The worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
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Hierarchy Permaculture Successful

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