To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
BILL MOLLISONWhy is it that we don’t build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it’s a trivial thing to do?
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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I teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.
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The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, “Permaculture Two is a seditious book.” And I said, “At last someone understands what permaculture’s about.”
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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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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Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
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Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions.
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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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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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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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It still has these damn four things in it. Anything else is just unnecessary additions to make it smell good or color it blue when it goes down the toilet.
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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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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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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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It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
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