Bill Mollison

There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources…

— Bill Mollison

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

— Bill Mollison

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

— 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

Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when…

— Bill Mollison

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…

— 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 tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for…

— Bill Mollison

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

— Bill Mollison

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

— 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

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

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

— Bill Mollison

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

— Bill Mollison

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

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

— Bill Mollison

I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of…

— 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

My students are constantly amazing me.

— 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

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

— Bill Mollison

Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.

— Bill Mollison

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

— Bill Mollison

You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right…

— 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