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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

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Philosopher

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.
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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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Looks
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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My students are constantly amazing me.
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Amazing Students
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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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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Apples Years
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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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
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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Philosopher
We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

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We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Needs Oil
We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.
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Governments Hirerachical
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Simple
Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

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Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
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Errors Order
You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That’s the last place you’ll find those lessons readable.
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Lasts Lessons Needs
We have to let nature put what’s left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
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Ass Together Up
If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they’ll die in the next fire, or where you can’t get water to them. Or they’ll sit in all the dam sites. Or they’ll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
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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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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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Needs
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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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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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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