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

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I wrote out the lyrics that I would do at MAMA 4~5 days in advance. After I said that, Zico hyung told me that it's dangerous to write lyrics quickly like that and that I should be carefully.

Bill Mollison

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

Animal, Evolving, Man, Men, Self, Species

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the end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.

Adoption, Country, People, Settlements, Strategies, Use

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

Enough, Extinction, Longer, Species, System, Together

At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

Country, Cutting, Degrees, Face, Half, Squares

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

Goods, Money, Society, Spend, Women

People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.

Amazing, Done, People, Quite, Understand, Wells

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Kim Nam-joon

I wrote out the lyrics that I would do at MAMA 4~5 days in advance. After I said that, Zico hyung told me that it's dangerous to write lyrics quickly like that and that I should be carefully.

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Omar Chaparro

I've always been a very lucky guy. A lot of crazy things have happened in my career, but I guess the first big break was when I moved to Mexico City from Chihuahua.

Break, Careers, Chihuahua, Cities, Crazy, Happened

Dale Evans

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.

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Charles Grodin

I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

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Joseph Campbell

As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face

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