Bill Mollison Quotes
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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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Women spend the money of society on its goods.
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People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
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I think mine is a very rich life.
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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.
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Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?
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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.
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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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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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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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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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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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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."