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.
BILL MOLLISONI teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.
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I teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.
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Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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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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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
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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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If you let the world roll on the way it’s rolling, you’re voting for death. I’m not voting for death.
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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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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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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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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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