Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
BILL MOLLISONIf you’re dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can’t connect them.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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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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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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We’re only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
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We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better.
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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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That 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.
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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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It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers
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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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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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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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You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political.
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When 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.
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