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I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

Bill Mollison

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
BILL MOLLISON

Failing Law People Really
We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Government Needs Oil
I’m certain I don’t know what permaculture is. That’s what I like about it – it’s not dogmatic. But you’ve got to say it’s about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.
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Design Eerie Permaculture
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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Agriculture College Earth
If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don’t listen to them that much.
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Looks People Want
We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.
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Encounter Process Reactive
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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One Rainwater Thing
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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Bushmen Helping Permaculture
We have to let nature put what’s left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
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Ass Come Together Up
If you’re a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.
BILL MOLLISON

People Simple Want
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
A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.
BILL MOLLISON

Book Collection Information Own Person
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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Garden People Philosopher
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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Group Thinking World
If you let the world roll on the way it’s rolling, you’re voting for death. I’m not voting for death.
BILL MOLLISON

Death Rolling Voting World

I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

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