Bill Mollison Quotes

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.
BILL MOLLISON

Reactive
Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
BILL MOLLISON

Assorted Evolution Mammals Orchard
You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

BILL MOLLISON

You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
BILL MOLLISON

Boeing Knocking Something
If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that’s a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand.
BILL MOLLISON

Poison
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
BILL MOLLISON

Physics
I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
BILL MOLLISON

Philosophers Teach
Pollution is an unused resource.
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Pollution Resources Unused
We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
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Insurmountable
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.
BILL MOLLISON

Spoiled Urban
The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them.
BILL MOLLISON

Simple

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