We don’t have to
We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything. Bill Mollison
Bill Mollison
I could never teach
I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them. Bill Mollison
When you get deep
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
I think mine is
I think mine is a very rich life. Bill Mollison
Another thing I find
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
My students are constantly
My students are constantly amazing me. Bill Mollison
Women spend the money
Women spend the money of society on its goods. Bill Mollison
Instead of physicists teaching
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home. Bill Mollison
You can hit a
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 … Read more
People question me coming
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