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 More Quotes by Bill Mollison More Quotes From Bill Mollison 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 occupation simple people I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things. Bill Mollison believe interesting thinking Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains Bill Mollison responsible rain tree 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 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 creating car stars 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. Bill Mollison encounters real dog 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 poverty community people 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 sea beach years Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way. Bill Mollison ice alcohol water To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality Bill Mollison nonsense morality consciousness
