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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.

Bill Mollison

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People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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Wells
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Concentrated Remains Sugar
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Simple
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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One Rainwater Thing
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BOBBY VEE
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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Wish
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
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 Hirerachical
Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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Skills Use Way
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.
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Philosopher
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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Years
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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Confess Moving
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 Poison
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Things
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
I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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