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 More Quotes by Bill Mollison More Quotes From Bill Mollison If you only do one thing, collect rainwater. Bill Mollison rainwater one-thing ifs The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture. Bill Mollison agriculture india poison 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 skills might believe The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor. Bill Mollison agriculture college earth 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 want people To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state. Bill Mollison land world needs What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness. Bill Mollison land responsibility order Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers Bill Mollison urban-renewal creating technology Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man. Bill Mollison self animal men I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other. Bill Mollison groups world thinking Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships. Bill Mollison design worry looks If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers. Bill Mollison ifs forests teacher The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income. Bill Mollison yield land water If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere. Bill Mollison ifs-and ocean space 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 lessons lasts needs 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 asking-questions people thinking There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not. Bill Mollison wasting-time believe people We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass. Bill Mollison ass come-up together Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do? Bill Mollison trivial-things fuel water 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 writing book years
