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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.

Bill Mollison

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
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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Cutting Forests Lasts
The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them.
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Government Reality Simple
I’m certain I don’t know what permaculture is. That’s what I like about it – it’s not dogmatic. But you’ve got to say it’s about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.
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Design Eerie Permaculture
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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People Philosophers Teach
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn’t write it down fast enough.
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Brain Ideas Writing
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Forests Lose Teacher
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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Garden People Philosopher
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
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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Beached Bounder Hundred Seen Stream Tons
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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Challenges Permaculture Thinking
We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Government Needs Oil
I think it’s pointless asking questions like “Will humanity survive?” It’s purely up to people – if they want to, they can, if they don’t want to, they won’t.
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Asking People Questions Thinking
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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Group Thinking World
You can’t get the mud huts right if you haven’t got things right where you are. You’ve got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
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Country Help Huts Rights Work

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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