The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen -… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“Each such cycle is a unique event; diet, choice, selection, season, weather, digestion, decomposition and regeneration differ each time it happens. Thus,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing… — Bill Mollison Copy Share
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… — Bill Mollison Copy Share
Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human… — Bill Mollison Copy Share
Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save… — Bill Mollison Copy Share
The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse… — Bill Mollison Copy Share
The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is… — Bill Mollison Copy Share
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple. — Bill Mollison Copy Share
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher. — Bill Mollison Copy Share
If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People… — Bill Mollison Copy Share
You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things. — Bill Mollison Copy Share
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman. — Bill Mollison Copy Share
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… — Bill Mollison Copy Share
