We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to… — Bill Mollison Agriculture Copy Share Image
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
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
A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the… — Bill Mollison Cool down Copy Share Image
Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy… — Bill Mollison Conflict 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… — Bill Mollison Business Copy Share Image
Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is… — Bill Mollison Biologist 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 Earth Copy Share Image
I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather… — 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
You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit… — Bill Mollison Animal 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 Chance Copy Share Image
Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp… — Bill Mollison Beach Copy Share Image
We don't have any power of creation - we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;… — Bill Mollison Agriculture Copy Share Image
You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going… — 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… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an… — 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
You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can… — Bill Mollison Cooperation 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
One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if… — Bill Mollison Design Copy Share Image
The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on… — Bill Mollison Book Copy Share Image
I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic.… — Bill Mollison Academic Copy Share Image
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature. — Bill Mollison Animal 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
The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens.… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists… — 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 Agriculture Copy Share Image
Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an… — Bill Mollison Approach Copy Share Image
