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Bill Mollison

You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Boeing Knocking Something
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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Anarchy Cooperation Permaculture
“Should we tamper with nature?” is no longer a question – we’ve tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
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Earth Faces Question
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
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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Group Thinking World
When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don’t grow their own vegetables, in fact they’re not deep ecologists – they’re my enemies.
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Car Enemy Vegetables
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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People Philosophers Teach
We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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Insurmountable Opportunity
A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
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Failing Law People Really
It still has these damn four things in it. Anything else is just unnecessary additions to make it smell good or color it blue when it goes down the toilet.
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Addition Color Down Smell Toilet Unnecessary
You can’t get the mud huts right if you haven’t got things right where you are. You’ve got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
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Country Help Huts Rights Work
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.
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Asking People Questions Thinking
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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Looks People Want
Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design.
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Design Looks Worry
People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.
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Done People Understand Wells
A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.
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Book Collection Information Own Person

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