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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

Bill Mollison

It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers
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Dwells Principle Resources Urban Use
Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions.
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Alcohol Freezing Ice Water
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees.
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Animal Apples Years
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
We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.
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Governments Help Hirerachical Ourselves
Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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Challenges Permaculture Thinking
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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Encounter Process Reactive
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Forests Lose Teacher
I confess to a rare problem – gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me – but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves.
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Air Confess Fall Moving
Why is it that we don’t build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it’s a trivial thing to do?
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Fuel Things Trivial Water
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
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
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
Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.
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Concentrate Concentrated Open Remains Remove Sugar
There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help.
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Hands People Water
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Deep Understanding Wealth World

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

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