I believe humanity is
I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things. Bill Mollison
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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
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
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
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 … Read more
I’d come into town from the bush – after 28 years of field work in natural systems – and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests. Bill Mollison
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
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
“Should we tamper with nature?” is no longer a question – we’ve tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth. Bill Mollison
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 … Read more
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