If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I… — 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
If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived.… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
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 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
If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
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 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
