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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

We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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Catastrophes Spectacular Talent
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
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
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Animal Men Self
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
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.
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People Simple Want
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
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees.
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Animal Apples Years
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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Goods Society Women
I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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Believe Interesting Thinking
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 think mine is a very rich life.
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Life Mine Rich Thinking
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
I confess to a rare problem – gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me – but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves.
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Air Confess Fall Moving
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
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

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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