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I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.

Bill Mollison

Why is it that we don’t build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it’s a trivial thing to do?
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Fuel Things Trivial Water
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
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
People like that don’t poison things, they don’t ruin things, they don’t lose soils, they don’t build things they can’t sustain.
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Build People Sustain Things
Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
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Assorted Evolution Mammals Orchard
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
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Forests Lose Teacher
The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
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Change Food Garden
You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Boeing Knocking Something
It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.
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Energy Food Friend Material Sustainable
The extinction rate is so huge now, we’re to the stage where we’ve got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
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Enough Extinction Together
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
We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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Catastrophes Spectacular Talent
You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political.
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Amount Cost Energy Ourselves Provide
Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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Skills Use Way
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

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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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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