Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails. — 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
There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just… — 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 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
Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea,… — 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… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others… — 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
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It… — 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
The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of… — 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
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
I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen -… — 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… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener."… — 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
There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of… — 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
