Bill Mollison Quotes
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Pollution is an unused resource.
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Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.
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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 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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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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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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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.
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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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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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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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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.