Bill Mollison Quotes

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• The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. 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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  Change, Food, Garden

  "An introduction to permaculture". Book by Bill Mollison, 1991.

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

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  Simple, World, Problem

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• There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. 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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  Hands, Water, People

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• 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. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.

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  Simple, Reality, Government

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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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  Kitchen, Looks, Growing

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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. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

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  Agriculture, Order, Ecosystems

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• It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better. You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political. There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.

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  Law, People, Political

  "Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution — An Interview with Bill Mollison". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. 2005.

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• Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

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  Deep Understanding, World, Wealth

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

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  Self, Practice, People

  "Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

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• Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system

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  Philosophy, Animal, Thoughtful

  Bill Mollison (1979). “Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture”, Permaculture Inst of

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• The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

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  Children, Responsibility, Decision

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• We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.

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  Earth, Heal, Sufficient

  Source: permaculturenews.org

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• You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

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  Ducks, Problem, Permaculture

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• Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

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  Good Life, Lying, Wind

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• We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

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  Opportunity, Insurmountable

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• Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.

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  Self, Perpetuating

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

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  Thinking, Groups, World

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

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  Men, Knows

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• Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.

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  Stress, Thoughtful, Focus

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• If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

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  Rainwater, One Thing, Ifs

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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. 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

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  Technology, Creating, Urban Renewal

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• If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

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  Teacher, Forests, Ifs

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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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  Running, Cooperation, Knows

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

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  Believe, Skills, Might

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.

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  Land, Needs, World

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