Bill Mollison

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

— Bill Mollison

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

— Bill Mollison

Pollution is an unused resource.

— Bill Mollison

I think mine is a very rich life.

— Bill Mollison

Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.

— Bill Mollison

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater...

— Bill Mollison

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

— Bill Mollison

My students are constantly amazing me.

— Bill Mollison

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

— Bill Mollison

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

— Bill Mollison

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

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

— Bill Mollison

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

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

— Bill Mollison

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

— Bill Mollison

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

— Bill Mollison

Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea,…

— Bill Mollison

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

We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to…

— Bill Mollison

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

— Bill Mollison

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen -…

— Bill Mollison

The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area -…

— Bill Mollison

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts…

— Bill Mollison

That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we…

— Bill Mollison

There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of…

— Bill Mollison

There are only four things in all cleaners - whether it's shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix…

— Bill Mollison

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

At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long…

— Bill Mollison

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…

— Bill Mollison

Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of…

— Bill Mollison

We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners…

— Bill Mollison

Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work…

— Bill Mollison

“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources,…

— Bill Mollison

“Each such cycle is a unique event; diet, choice, selection, season, weather, digestion, decomposition and regeneration differ each time it happens. Thus,…

— Bill Mollison

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

“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources,…

— Bill Mollison

Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can…

— Bill Mollison

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

— Bill Mollison

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

— Bill Mollison

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

— Bill Mollison