If you’re dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can’t connect them.
BILL MOLLISONIf you’re dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can’t connect them.
BILL MOLLISONThey 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.
BILL MOLLISONWe should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
BILL MOLLISONWe should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.
BILL MOLLISONHence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.
BILL MOLLISONThe 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.
BILL MOLLISONWhen you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don’t grow their own vegetables, in fact they’re not deep ecologists – they’re my enemies.
BILL MOLLISONWe don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
BILL MOLLISONFew people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
BILL MOLLISONIf people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don’t listen to them that much.
BILL MOLLISONAnother thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don’t just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.
BILL MOLLISONThat we don’t design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
BILL MOLLISONIf you let the world roll on the way it’s rolling, you’re voting for death. I’m not voting for death.
BILL MOLLISONPermaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
BILL MOLLISONYou 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.
BILL MOLLISONI 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.
BILL MOLLISON