Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and… — 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 inevitably involved in it from the beginning. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
