Latest Bill Mollison Quotes from Interviews

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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.

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

  Bill Mollison

  Earth, Heal, Sufficient

  Source: permaculturenews.org

• If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

  Bill Mollison

  People, Looks, Want

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

• Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.

  Bill Mollison

  People

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

• Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.

  Bill Mollison

  Skills, Use, Way

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

• If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

  Bill Mollison

  Believe, Skills, Might

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

• I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

  Bill Mollison

  Thinking, Groups, World

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

• I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.

  Bill Mollison

  Thinking, Asking Questions, People

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

• You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.

  Bill Mollison

  Running, Cooperation, Knows

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

• Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.

  Bill Mollison

  Anarchy, Cooperation, Permaculture

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

• You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

  Bill Mollison

  Knocking

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

• 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.

  Bill Mollison

  Thinking, Way, Boxes

  Source: permaculturenews.org

• If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.

  Bill Mollison

  Simple, People, Want

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

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

  Bill Mollison

  Successful, Hierarchy, Permaculture

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

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

  Bill Mollison

  Thinking, Challenges, Permaculture

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

• People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

  Bill Mollison

  Simple, People, Occupation

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

• The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about."

  Bill Mollison

  Book, Writing, Years

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

• 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.

• You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.

  Bill Mollison

  Needs, Lessons, Lasts

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

• We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.

  Bill Mollison

  Together, Ass, Come Up

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

• 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 you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.

  Bill Mollison

  Cutting, Lasts, Forests

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

• If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

  Bill Mollison

  Voting, Rolling, World

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

• The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

  Bill Mollison

  Together, Extinction, Enough

  "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.

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

  Bill Mollison

  Agriculture, Important, Modern

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