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“The function of art is to struggle against obligation.”

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Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian painter known for his distinctive lines and sculptural figures. His works had a profound impact on the modern art scene in the early 20th century. more

“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.”

People Ends Country Use Results Environment Needed Areas Strategy Release Landscape Regions Occupation Sole Household Adoption Wildlife Settlement Permaculture End Results Flora

Author: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.”

World Way Real Dies Causes Process Results Dog Machines Encounters Real World Bites Nails Predictable Dodge

Author:Bill Mollison

“I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.”

Two Problem Seems Moving Fall Air Paper Blue Illness Showers Complaints Toilets Traveller Tissues Permaculture Affluent

Author:Bill Mollison

“What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.”

Needs Should Use Order House Responsibility Land Wilderness Ethical Justification Lawns Clearing Permaculture Erosion

Author:Bill Mollison

“Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.”

Form Order Type Conflict Errors Settling Wilderness

Author:Bill Mollison

“We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently.”

Made Two Body Lying Names Groups India Species Ancient Organisms Aboriginal Guilds Ancient India

Author:Bill Mollison

“The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.”

Needs Looks Values Water Land Products Source Pure Constant Property Valuable Income Owners Yield Pure Water

Author:Bill Mollison

“Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an approach combining the sensible utilisation of grasshoppers and grubs as a valuable dried-protein supplement for fish or food pellets, and a combination of soil conditioning, slashing, and de-stocking or re-seeding to restore species balance.”

“Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.”

Years May Long Earth Life Is Sea Stones Roots Busy Miles Beach Streams Soil Throwing Coast Floats Minerals Strands Granite Boulders

Author:Bill Mollison

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