There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
BILL MOLLISONFreezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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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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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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Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
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Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design.
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Anarchy would suggest you’re not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.
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The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them.
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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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People like that don’t poison things, they don’t ruin things, they don’t lose soils, they don’t build things they can’t sustain.
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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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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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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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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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