Bill Mollison
Bill Mollison (born 1928 in Tasmania, Australia) is a researcher, author, scientist, teacher, naturalist and has been called the ‘father of permaculture’, an integrated system of design co-developed with David Holmgren that encompasses not only agriculture, horticulture, architecture and ecology but also economic systems, land access strategies and legal systems for businesses and communities.
It makes sense to increase the procreative resource so that greed becomes obsolete. That’s what makes sense, that’s what’s intelligent. Stupidity is to grab what you can. Intelligence is to grow so much, there is no need to grab anything. That is intelligence. Stupidity is greed. On a broad enough scale it becomes evil. If you ever wondered what evil is, it is stupidity on a large scale.” – Bill Mollison
If we do not get our cities, homes, and gardens in order, so that they feed and shelter us, we must lay waste to all other natural systems. us, truly responsible conservationists have gardens… – Bill Mollison ##chapter 1.3 – Bill Mollison
…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 forrest-occupation by endemic flora. ##chapter 1.3 – Bill Mollison
You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes. ##chapter 2.2 – Bill Mollison