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• Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals. I never listened to what they were saying - I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.

  Bill Mollison

  Night, Animal, Opposites

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

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• 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.

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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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• Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

  Bill Mollison

  Rain, Tree, Responsible

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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 disaster.

  Bill Mollison

  Eerie, Agriculture, Design

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

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• You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.

  Bill Mollison

  Helping, Permaculture, Bushmen

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

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• We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently.

  Bill Mollison

  Lying, Names, Two

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

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• 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.

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• Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.

  Bill Mollison

  Home, Toilets, Modern

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

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• There are only four things in all cleaners - whether it's shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn't matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label - it still has these damn four things in it. Anything else is just unnecessary additions to make it smell good or color it blue when it goes down the toilet.

  Bill Mollison

  Blue, Color, Smell

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

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• 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.

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  Beach, Years, Sea

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

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• The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.

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  Country, People, Adoption

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

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• I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to say it's about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.

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  Eerie, Design, Permaculture

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

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• To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

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  Morality, Consciousness, Nonsense

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• Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.

  Bill Mollison

  Real, Book, People

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

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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 than witchcraft, really.

  Bill Mollison

  Agriculture, Important, Modern

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

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• I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

  Bill Mollison

  Thinking, Wish, Want

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

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• You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.

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  Dog, Real, Encounters

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

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• Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.

  Bill Mollison

  Technology, Air, Years

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• I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

  Bill Mollison

  People, Chaos, Theory

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

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• People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.

  Bill Mollison

  People, Done, Wells

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

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• At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

  Bill Mollison

  Country, Cutting, Squares

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

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• It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

  Bill Mollison

  People, Community, Poverty

  "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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• 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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