Anarchy would suggest you’re not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.
BILL MOLLISONAt 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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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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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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I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.
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Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.
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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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You can’t get the mud huts right if you haven’t got things right where you are. You’ve got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
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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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People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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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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Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.
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We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing.
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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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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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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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