If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
BILL MOLLISONEven houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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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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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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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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I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen – whose language nobody can speak – to be very good permaculture people.
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Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees.
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We’re only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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Why is it that we don’t build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it’s a trivial thing to do?
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You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political.
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That we don’t design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
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We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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My students are constantly amazing me.
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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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