Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thought… - Bill Mollison
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thought…
- Bill Mollison
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of n… - Bill Mollison
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of n…
We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby. - Bill Mollison
We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
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 a… - Bill Mollison
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 a…
I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s… - Bill Mollison
I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s…
It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better. You might… - Bill Mollison
It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better. You might…
Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete str… - Bill Mollison
Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete str…
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. - Bill Mollison
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world. - Bill Mollison
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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