I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.
BILL MOLLISONIf 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.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
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You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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If you let the world roll on the way it’s rolling, you’re voting for death. I’m not voting for death.
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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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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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The worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
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Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
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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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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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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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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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Another 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.
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There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.
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