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

Bill Mollison

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

Home Physics Teaching
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
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
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
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Deep Understanding Wealth World
Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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Challenges Permaculture Thinking
To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one’s needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.
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Land Needs 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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People Philosophers Teach
I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.
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People Spoiled Urban
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
Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design.
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Design Looks Worry
Pollution is an unused resource.
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Pollution Resources Unused
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Problem Simple World
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
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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Goods Society Women
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

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