Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world. Bill Mollison More Quotes by Bill Mollison More Quotes From Bill Mollison Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively. Bill Mollison iron stupidity differences If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death. Bill Mollison rolling voting world Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot." Bill Mollison self should-have listening Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition. Bill Mollison permaculture challenges thinking Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails. Bill Mollison earth people dirty Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is. Bill Mollison mud organization home Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an approach combining the sensible utilisation of grasshoppers and grubs as a valuable dried-protein supplement for fish or food pellets, and a combination of soil conditioning, slashing, and de-stocking or re-seeding to restore species balance. Bill Mollison weed balance past Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals. Bill Mollison apples animal years Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area. Bill Mollison cities animal country Pollution is an unused resource. Bill Mollison pollution resources Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years. Bill Mollison technology air years A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws). Bill Mollison failing law Once you've said to yourself, "But I'm not using my physics in my house," or "I'm not using my ecology in my garden, I've never applied it to what I do," it's like something physical moves inside your brain. Suddenly you say, "If I did apply what I know to how I live, that would be miraculous!" Then the whole thing unrolls like one great carpet. Undo one knot, and the whole thing just rolls downhill. Bill Mollison garden house moving You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things. Bill Mollison knocking 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 modern important If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them. Bill Mollison assembly ifs together You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that. Bill Mollison cooperation knows running 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 opposites animal night I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people. Bill Mollison desert teaching people Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region. Bill Mollison fuzzy layers boundaries
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