Bill Mollison Quotes

The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area – they’re worse than witchcraft, really.

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity – you couldn’t flush the toilet without it. It’s a huge dependency situation.

I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don’t understand anything about where we live, and we don’t want to.

We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.

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.

Permaculture is something with a million heads. It’s a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can’t put a way of thinking back in the box.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

People do things which I find quite amazing – things I would never have done and can’t understand very well.

I think Americans are so poor it’s pitiful, because you don’t understand the natural world at all.