Bill Mollison Quotes
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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.
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.
I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.
I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.
I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.
"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us.
Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
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.
