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“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 back in the box.” quote by Bill Mollison — Download Open image

“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 back in the box.”

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There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to…

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Women spend the money of society on its goods.

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Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

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That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a…

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Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human…

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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 to save…

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The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse…

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The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help…

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We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

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

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I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

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If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People…

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