Bill Mollison

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

— Bill Mollison

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

— Bill Mollison

My students are constantly amazing me.

— Bill Mollison

Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.

— Bill Mollison

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater...

— Bill Mollison

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

— Bill Mollison

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

— Bill Mollison

Pollution is an unused resource.

— Bill Mollison

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

— Bill Mollison

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

— Bill Mollison

We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.

— Bill Mollison

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

— Bill Mollison

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

— Bill Mollison

Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.

— Bill Mollison

I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

— Bill Mollison

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

— Bill Mollison

I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to…

— Bill Mollison

Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.

— Bill Mollison

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

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

— 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

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

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

Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way…

— Bill Mollison

If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit…

— Bill Mollison

Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they…

— Bill Mollison

What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we…

— Bill Mollison

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

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

Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others…

— Bill Mollison

Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil…

— 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

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

“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources,…

— Bill Mollison

“Each such cycle is a unique event; diet, choice, selection, season, weather, digestion, decomposition and regeneration differ each time it happens. Thus,…

— Bill Mollison

Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can…

— Bill Mollison

“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources,…

— Bill Mollison

I think mine is a very rich life.

— Bill Mollison

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

— Bill Mollison

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

— Bill Mollison