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Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison (4 May 1928 – 24 September 2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist.

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I think mine is a very rich life.

Life, Rich, Rich Life, Think, Thinking

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

Duck, Ducks, Permaculture, Problem, Snail

I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.

Interested, Life, People, Spoiled, Travel, Urban

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.

Believe, Expressed, Might, Skills

We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.

Ass, Come Up, Left, Let, Together

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

Decently, Dirty, Earth, International, People

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

Animal, Evolving, Man, Men, Self, Species

Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

Doorsteps, Good Life, Lies, Lying, Plants, Wind

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

Anarchy, Cooperating, Cooperation, Permaculture, Suggest

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

Claim, Consciousness, Morality, Nonsense, Perish

If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.

Assembly, Dealing, Ifs, Systems, Together

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

Collect, Ifs, One Thing, Rainwater, Thing

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

Natural, Pitiful, Poor, Thinking, World

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, Apple, Apples, Bramble, Particular, Years

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.

Asking Questions, Like, People, Pointless, Questions, Thinking

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.

Bushmen, Desert, People, Teaching

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

Differences, Iron, Stupidity, Value

Trees are responsible for 3
4 of all rains

Rain, Rains, Responsible, Tree, Trees

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.

Establish, Ifs And, Ocean, Right, Society, Space

If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People like that don't poison things, they don't ruin things, they don't lose soils, they don't build things they can't sustain.

People, Philosophy, Poison, Ruin, Understand

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