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Bill Mollison

The worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
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Hierarchy Permaculture Successful
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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Dirty Earth People
You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Boeing Knocking Something
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.
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Garden Hence Shetter Words
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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Agriculture College Earth
I never listened to what they were saying – I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.
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Country Opposite People Watched
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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Country Cutting Square
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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One Rainwater Thing
People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
BILL MOLLISON

Done People Understand Wells
We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
BILL MOLLISON

Government Needs Oil
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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Death Rolling Voting World
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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People Simple Want
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living.
BILL MOLLISON

Creating Renewal Technology Urban
I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
BILL MOLLISON

People Philosophers Teach
We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.
BILL MOLLISON

Encounter Process Reactive
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
BILL MOLLISON

Group Thinking World

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