The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
BILL MOLLISONWe should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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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.
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There are only four things in all cleaners – whether it’s shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn’t matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label.
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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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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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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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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don’t listen to them that much.
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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 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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They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.
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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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Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.
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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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