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Bill Mollison has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts…
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Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea,…
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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 it is…
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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. Buildings might…
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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 working nearby.
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Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It…
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Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;…
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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 the natural…
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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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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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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
— Wendell Berry
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of…
— Wendell Berry
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
— Edmund Burke
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We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at…
— Unknown Author
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea…
— Hal Borland
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
— George Santayana
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Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
— Max Ehrmann
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This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and…
— Winston Churchill
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At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial…
— Daniel Goleman
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Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is…
— Sri Chinmoy
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