Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living.
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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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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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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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Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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You can’t live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they’ve got to rethink the whole basis of how they’re going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.
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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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There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
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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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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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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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You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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