We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth. — Bill Mollison Earth Copy Share Image
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it… — Bill Mollison Agriculture 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 Death 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 Education Copy Share Image
The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy. — Bill Mollison Hierarchy Copy Share Image
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man. — Bill Mollison Agriculture Copy Share Image
You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality — 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 Gardener Copy Share Image
The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no… — Bill Mollison Ecology Copy Share Image
When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in… — 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
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts… — Bill Mollison Agriculture Copy Share Image
The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area -… — Bill Mollison Agriculture 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… — Bill Mollison Agriculture 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 Bird 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
The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of… — Bill Mollison Adoption 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 Brain Copy Share Image
Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of… — Bill Mollison Alcohol 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 Cities Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural… — Bill Mollison Agriculture 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 Blue 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
A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there,… — Bill Mollison Canyons Copy Share Image
The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby. — Bill Mollison Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition. — Bill Mollison Agriculture Copy Share Image
I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to. — Bill Mollison Death Copy Share Image
Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. — Bill Mollison Children 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
Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say. — Bill Mollison Friend Copy Share Image
"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth. — Bill Mollison Earth 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 Guidance Copy Share Image
We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything. — Bill Mollison Government Copy Share Image
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other. — Bill Mollison Cooperatives 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 Amazing Copy Share Image
