Bill Mollison Quotes

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

Bill Mollison

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• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Party

• On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Good
  • Great
  • American

• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Like
  • Adult

• I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Proud

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Clever

• I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • Dancing
  • Grandma

• I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Dark
  • Vision

• Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Name
  • Found
  • Letters

• It is everybody's wish to work with Mani Ratnam.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Everybody

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • World
  • Language
  • Learn

• The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Different
  • Science
  • Technology

• Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Knowledge
  • Financial

• I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Guy

• I want to win a world title for sure. When I'm a little bit older, I'll have a lot of time to free-surf in my life. So I would love to win a world title.

  

  John John Florence
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Eyes

• Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Trees
  • Cows
  • Maple-trees

• Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • God
  • Nature
  • Man

• Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Ecology