You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
BILL MOLLISONWomen are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
More Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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You won’t get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.
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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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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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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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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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Permaculture is something with a million heads. It’s a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can’t put a way of thinking back in the box.
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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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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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You can’t live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they’ve got to rethink the whole basis of how they’re going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.
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Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
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If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they’ll die in the next fire, or where you can’t get water to them. Or they’ll sit in all the dam sites. Or they’ll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
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We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, “Permaculture Two is a seditious book.” And I said, “At last someone understands what permaculture’s about.”
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We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.
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