I’d come into town from the bush – after 28 years of field work in natural systems – and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
BILL MOLLISON“Should we tamper with nature?” is no longer a question – we’ve tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.
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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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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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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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People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
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I confess to a rare problem – gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me – but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves.
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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 is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
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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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Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.
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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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“Should we tamper with nature?” is no longer a question – we’ve tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
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Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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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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