Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
BILL MOLLISONI think mine is a very rich life.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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You can’t live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they’ve got to rethink the whole basis of how they’re going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.
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I think mine is a very rich life.
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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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My students are constantly amazing me.
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We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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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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Anything that’s left that’s remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It’s not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
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I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.
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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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The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, “Permaculture Two is a seditious book.” And I said, “At last someone understands what permaculture’s about.”
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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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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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