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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

Bill Mollison

If you’re a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.
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People Simple Want
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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One Rainwater Thing
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.
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Fields Forests Years
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Deep Understanding Wealth World
There are only four things in all cleaners – whether it’s shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn’t matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label.
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Blue Color Detergent Label Smell Toilet
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
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
We have to let nature put what’s left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
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Ass Come Together Up
I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don’t understand anything about where we live, and we don’t want to.
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Thinking Want Wish
You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That’s the last place you’ll find those lessons readable.
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Lasts Lessons Needs
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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Agriculture Ecosystems Order
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
Hence 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.
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Garden Hence Shetter Words
The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
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Change Food Garden
We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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Catastrophes Spectacular Talent
You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Boeing Knocking Something

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