I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you’ve got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road.
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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.
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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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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 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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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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Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots.
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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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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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I think mine is a very rich life.
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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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We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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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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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.
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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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It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.
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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
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Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
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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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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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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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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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To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
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