Bill Mollison Quotes
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Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.
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If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.
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The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
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My students are constantly amazing me.
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That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
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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.
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If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.
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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."
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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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We don't have any power of creation - we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.
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Women spend the money of society on its goods.