I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit… — 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… — 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
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
