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.
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens without good reason . . . then it's a tragedy of diminishment for the whole planet, a loss of one more wild thing, leaving Earth just a little flatter and tamer and simpler and uglier than before.
For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.
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