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.
BILL MOLLISONMost 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.
BILL MOLLISONYou can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
BILL MOLLISONA lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.
BILL MOLLISONPermaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.
BILL MOLLISONI could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
BILL MOLLISONWomen are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
BILL MOLLISONI can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.
BILL MOLLISONThere 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.
BILL MOLLISONIf you’re dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can’t connect them.
BILL MOLLISONMost modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity – you couldn’t flush the toilet without it. It’s a huge dependency situation.
BILL MOLLISONLife 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.
BILL MOLLISONTo create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
BILL MOLLISONAnother 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.
BILL MOLLISONPermaculture 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 MOLLISONThe agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
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.
BILL MOLLISON