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

Bill Mollison

I teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.
BILL MOLLISON

People Practice Self
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
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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Dirty Earth People
You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Boeing Knocking Something
I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen – whose language nobody can speak – to be very good permaculture people.
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Desert People Teaching
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
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
Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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Skills Use Way
Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
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Bloody Even Way Wronger
People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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Done People Understand Wells
“Should we tamper with nature?” is no longer a question – we’ve tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
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Earth Faces Question
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
Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions.
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Alcohol Freezing Ice Water
You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way.
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Dog Encounters Real
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn’t write it down fast enough.
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Brain Ideas Writing
We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Government Needs Oil

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