"I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice.……" — Bill Mollison
"I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition."
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27 Quotes by Bill Mollison
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The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India…
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Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings,…
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Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
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Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that…
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There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
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It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier.…
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We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends…
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Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural…
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Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and…
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The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
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Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with…
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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in…
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More Food Quotes
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
— Rodney Atkins
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
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It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,…
— David Attenborough
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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
— Margaret Atwood
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very…
— Sai Baba
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
— Lucille Ball
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Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call…
— Antonio Banderas
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I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just…
— Tyra Banks
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