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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

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
Pollution is an unused resource.
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Pollution Resources Unused
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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Design Looks Worry
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Problem Simple World
Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots.
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Beach Life Sea Years
My students are constantly amazing me.
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Amazing Constant Students
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
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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Fire Water Wind
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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Bushmen Helping Permaculture
I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
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Natural Thinking World
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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Country Emotion Knows Life Men Women
Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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Challenges Permaculture Thinking
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture Problem
If you’re dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can’t connect them.
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Assembly Details Together
We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Government Needs Oil
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Forests Lose Teacher

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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