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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the urgent need to restore the environment and educate the youth on sustainable practices.
Bill Mollison highlights the critical urgency of addressing environmental issues by focusing all available resources on repairing our natural ecosystems. He emphasizes the importance of training young people in sustainable practices, equipping them with the skills and knowledge necessary to create a healthier planet through hands-on experience, as their enthusiasm and willingness can be pivotal in reversing environmental damage.
In practice
During a school assembly focused on environmental awareness, this quote can inspire students to get involved in ecological projects.
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system
We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland.
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