Bill Mollison Quotes

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

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.

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don’t understand anything about where we live, and we don’t want to.

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.

Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking – and to that extent it’s sedition.

Use all the skills you have in relation to others – and that way we can do anything.

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers