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Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

Bill Mollison

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

Hands People Water
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Problem Simple World
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
A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.
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Book Collection Information Own Person
Pollution is an unused resource.
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Pollution Resources Unused
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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Believe People Time Wasting
When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don’t grow their own vegetables, in fact they’re not deep ecologists – they’re my enemies.
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Car Enemy Vegetables
We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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Catastrophes Spectacular Talent
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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People Philosophers Teach
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 think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
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Natural Thinking World
You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Boeing Knocking Something
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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Book Writing Years
Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.
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Characteristics City Country Landscapes Permaculture
I think mine is a very rich life.
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Life Mine Rich Thinking
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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Animal Found Produce

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