Bill Mollison Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

  Bill Mollison

  Simple, Weather, Long

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

• What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.

  Bill Mollison

  Responsibility, Order, Land

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

• Once you've said to yourself, "But I'm not using my physics in my house," or "I'm not using my ecology in my garden, I've never applied it to what I do," it's like something physical moves inside your brain. Suddenly you say, "If I did apply what I know to how I live, that would be miraculous!" Then the whole thing unrolls like one great carpet. Undo one knot, and the whole thing just rolls downhill.

  Bill Mollison

  Moving, Garden, House

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

• Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.

  Bill Mollison

  Eerie, People, House

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

• 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.

  Bill Mollison

  Wind, Fire, Water

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

• 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. 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.

  Bill Mollison

  Country, Cutting, Squares

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

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