Chaos Quote by Bill Mollison

I’m going to argue here that the most accurate and least muddled way to think of permaculture is as a design approach, and that…

— Toby Hemenway

Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of…

— 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 of thinking…

— Bill Mollison

Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of…

— Bill Mollison

“Sensitive dependence on initial conditions; one word, one act, can change the world. Well they named it chaos theory.”

— Ian McDonald

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

— Bill Mollison

Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders…

— Frederick Lenz

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

— Bill Mollison

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

— Sid Sriram

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

— Wilhelm Reich

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

— Bill Mollison

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple…

— Neil Gershenfeld