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
BILL MOLLISONIt 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.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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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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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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Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
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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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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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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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Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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I think mine is a very rich life.
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Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity – you couldn’t flush the toilet without it. It’s a huge dependency situation.
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If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that’s a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand.
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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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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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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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