A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
BILL MOLLISONI think mine is a very rich life.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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Pollution is an unused resource.
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You won’t get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.
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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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They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.
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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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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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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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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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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If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that’s a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand.
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The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
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