Bill Mollison Quotes
-
If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.
-
Pollution is an unused resource.
-
Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
-
Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
-
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.
-
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
-
If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.
-
My students are constantly amazing me.
-
There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.
-
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."
-
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.
-
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
-
We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
-
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.