Quotes by Bill Mollison

Bill Mollison

Anarchy would suggest you’re not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.

Anarchy

Cooperation

Permaculture

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.

Eerie

House

People

Anything that’s any good is self-perpetuating.

Perpetuating

Self

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.

Animal

Apples

Years

Choose your friends from people who you like what they do – even though you mightn’t like what they say.

People

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.

Design

Looks

Worry

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.

Alcohol

Ice

Water

I confess to a rare problem – gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me – but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.

Air

Fall

Moving

I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

People

Philosopher

Teach

I teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

People

Practice

Self

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Agriculture

Air

Alcohol

Anarchy

Animal

Apples

Asking Questions

Assembly

Balance

Book

Boundaries

Boxes

Car

Challenges

Change

Cooperation

Creating

Creation

Design

Differences

Eerie

Enemy

Enough

Extinction

Fall

Fields

Fire

Focus

Food

Forests

Fuzzy

Garden

Goods

Government

Growing

Home

House

Ice

Ifs

Important

India

Iron

Kitchen

Knows

Land

Lasts

Layers

Lessons

Looks

Modern

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Quotes by Bill Mollison

Bill Mollison

Anarchy would suggest you’re not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.

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.

Anything that’s any good is self-perpetuating.

Choose your friends from people who you like what they do – even though you mightn’t like what they say.

I could never teach people to be philosophers – and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

I teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

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