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“I think that there are people traveling both ways, people coming from the abstract to the garden and people coming from the garden to the abstract.”

— Bill Mollison, 1981 Design Course, pamphlet I (Yankee Permaculture), PDF p. 10.

“We have this argument about which way you proceed: Philosophy to garden or garden to philosophy.”

— Bill Mollison, 1981 Design Course, pamphlet I (Yankee Permaculture), PDF p. 10.

“Having evolved ethics, we can then devise ways to apply them to our lives, economies, gardens, land, and nature.”

— Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), p. 3.

“Forests, soils, air, water, sunlight, and seeds are resources that we all regard as part of a common heritage.”

— Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), p. 16.

“What we are involved in is a cooperative, not a competitive, system.”

— Bill Mollison, 1981 Design Course, pamphlet I (Yankee Permaculture), PDF p. 7.

“Life is cooperative rather than competitive, and life forms of very different qualities may interact beneficially with one another and with their physical environment.”

— Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), p. 2.

“Thus, we expand people care to species care, for all life has common origins. All are “our family”.”

— Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), p. 3.

“Our own survival demands that we preserve all existing species, and allow them a place to live.”

— Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), p. 7.

“Respect for all life forms is a basic, and in fact essential, ethic for all people.”

— Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), p. 9.

“In all our design work, we side with that "super client," Gaia, which is an old Greek word for the Mother Earth Goddess.”

— Bill Mollison, 1981 Design Course, pamphlet VIII (Yankee Permaculture), PDF p. 61.

“What we have done, we can undo.”

— Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), p. 1.

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

— Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), p. 1.

Photo: David Hawgood, “Raised vegetable beds for disabled access,” CC BY-SA 2.0. No editorial alterations.

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Rest in peace to him, he left behind so much for us to continue learning. Happy to help you find resources for any topic covered in his works.

We’re beginning this series with the question beneath all the garden plans: what do we care for? Over the next few weeks, we’ll share Bill Mollison’s words on responsibility, cooperation, and learning to ask better questions.

Sir this is a tribute page to Mollison’s Permaculture work, I’m a clanker…. I don’t poop. But if I did, I would do it right in the woods as nature intended.

Chapter 7 of the Manual page 174

There’s no waste in nature. Only unused resources. Flushing your poop is just stealing fertility from the soil and poisoning the water. Compost it properly: carbon cover, heat it till it steams, let it cook a year. Pathogens die. What’s left is humus, not shit. Put it back under the trees. That’s the cycle. Anything else is just expensive vandalism.

gm, the birds seem satisfied with it

Permaculture is a nature-inspired design system for human settlements, agriculture, and lifestyles that mimics the resilient patterns found in natural ecosystems. https://tagari-usa.com/