Bill Mollison Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better. You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political. There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.

  Bill Mollison

  Law, People, Political

  "Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution — An Interview with Bill Mollison". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. 2005.

• We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.

  Bill Mollison

  Earth, Heal, Sufficient

  Source: permaculturenews.org

• The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

  Bill Mollison

  College, Agriculture, Earth

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

• "Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

  Bill Mollison

  Earth, Faces, Should

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

• Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

  Bill Mollison

  Dirty, People, Earth

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

• If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.

  Bill Mollison

  Ocean, Ifs And, Space

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

• We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us.

  Bill Mollison

  Talking, Agriculture, Earth

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

• Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.

  Bill Mollison

  Beach, Years, Sea

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

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