If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them.… — 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 a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never… — 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
