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.
BILL MOLLISONIf you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they’ll die in the next fire, or where you can’t get water to them. Or they’ll sit in all the dam sites. Or they’ll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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I’d come into town from the bush – after 28 years of field work in natural systems – and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
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Pollution is an unused resource.
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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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There are only four things in all cleaners – whether it’s shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn’t matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label.
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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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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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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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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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I think mine is a very rich life.
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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.
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Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.
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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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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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