I think it’s pointless asking questions like “Will humanity survive?” It’s purely up to people – if they want to, they can, if they don’t want to, they won’t.
BILL MOLLISONI’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.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don’t understand anything about where we live, and we don’t want to.
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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
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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 don’t have any power of creation – we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.
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Pollution is an unused resource.
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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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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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