Permaculture Quotes

• Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance

  Toby Hemenway

  Moving, Giving, Culture

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• 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

  Bill Mollison

  Philosophy, Animal, Thoughtful

  Bill Mollison (1979). “Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture”, Permaculture Inst of

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• Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

  Bill Mollison

  Simple, World, Problem

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• Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.

  Bill Mollison

  Stress, Thoughtful, Focus

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• What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.

  David Suzuki

  Important, Groups, Planets

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• Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

  Bill Mollison

  Agriculture, Order, Ecosystems

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• You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

  Bill Mollison

  Ducks, Problem, Snail

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• You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.

  Geoff Lawton

  Garden, World, Problem

  "Establishing a Food Forest". Tagline, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

  David Holmgren

  Agriculture, Design, Energy

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

  Bill Mollison

  Children, Responsibility, Decision

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• El mayor cambio que debemos hacer es pasar del consumo a la producción, aunque sea a pequeña escala, en nuestros propios huertos. Si sólo el 10% de nosotros lo hace, habrá suficiente para todos. De ahí la inutilidad de los revolucionarios que no tienen huertos, que dependen del mismo sistema que atacan y que producen palabras y balas, no comida y techo.

  Bill Mollison

  Change, Food, Garden

  "An introduction to permaculture". Book by Bill Mollison, 1991.

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• Todo lo que necesitamos para vivir bien está a nuestro alrededor. El sol, el viento, la gente, los edificios, las piedras, el mar, los pájaros y las plantas nos rodean. La cooperación con todas estas cosas trae armonía, la oposición a ellas trae desastre y caos.

  Bill Mollison

  Buena Vida, Mentir, Viento

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• Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the philosophy can use to meet their goals and design a world in which human needs are met while enhancing the health of this miraculous planet that supports us.

  Toby Hemenway

  Philosophy, Goal, Design

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• Es una revolución. Pero es el tipo de revolución que nadie notará. Puede que haya más sombra. Puede que los edificios funcionen mejor. Puede que tengas que ganar menos dinero porque la comida está a tu alrededor y no tienes gastos de energía. Podrían liberarse enormes cantidades de dinero en la sociedad para que podamos mantenernos mejor. Así que es una revolución. Pero la permacultura es antipolítica. No hay lugar para políticos ni administradores ni sacerdotes. Y tampoco hay leyes. Las únicas éticas a las que obedecemos son: el cuidado de la tierra, el cuidado de las personas y la reinversión en esos fines.

  Bill Mollison

  Derecho, Personas, Política

  "Permacultura: Una revolución silenciosa - Entrevista con Bill Mollison". Entrevista con Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. 2005.

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• La permacultura crea una ecología cultivada, concebida para producir más alimentos humanos y animales de los que suele haber en la naturaleza.

  Bill Mollison

  Animal, Encontrado, Produce

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• Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

  Bill Mollison

  Country, Animal, Cities

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• I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

  Ellen Page

  Lifestyle, I Can

  "Ellen Page: 'I'm totally pro-choice. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers?'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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• Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.

  David Holmgren

  Energy, Needs, Landscape

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• What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.

  David Suzuki

  Gente, Importante, Grupos

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• La permacultura ofrece un enfoque radical de la producción de alimentos y la renovación urbana, el agua, la energía y la contaminación. Integra la ecología, el paisaje, la jardinería orgánica, la arquitectura y la agrosilvicultura en la creación de un modo de vida rico y sostenible. Utiliza una tecnología apropiada que proporciona altos rendimientos con bajos insumos energéticos, logrando un recurso de gran diversidad y estabilidad. Los principios de diseño son aplicables tanto a los habitantes de las ciudades como a los de las zonas rurales.

  Bill Mollison

  Tecnología, Creación, Renovación urbana

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• Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

  Bill Mollison

  Animal, Hombre, Yo

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• Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.

  Bill Mollison

  Anarchy, Cooperation, Cooperating

  "Permacultura: Diseño para vivir". Entrevista con Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.

  Bill Mollison

  Country, People, Adoption

  "Permacultura: A Designers' Manual". Libro de Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

  Bill Mollison

  Iron, Differences, Stupidity

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• National Permaculture Day is a chance to share thoughts, visions and lots of common sense ways that we can all make a positive difference to the world we live in. Its all about combining age old truths and skills with new and innovative thinking and technologies….people, plants and landscapes growing together, designing and nurturing a healthy community along the way.

  Costa Georgiadis

  Technology, Thinking, Skills

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