Bill Mollison Quotes - Page 5

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.

  Bill Mollison

  Writing, Ideas, Brain

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

  Bill Mollison

  Order, Errors, Conflict

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

  Bill Mollison

  Believe, Thinking, Interesting

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Women spend the money of society on its goods.

  Bill Mollison

  Goods

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• My students are constantly amazing me.

  Bill Mollison

  Students

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

  Bill Mollison

  Teaching, Home, Physics

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.

  Bill Mollison

  Eerie, People, House

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

  Bill Mollison

  People, Philosopher, Teach

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.

  Bill Mollison

  Vegetables, Car, Enemy

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

  Bill Mollison

  Government, Oil, Needs

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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