25 Quotes by Bill Mollison

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

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality.

Animals are the messengers of the tree, and trees the gardens of animals. Life depends upon life. All forces, all elements, all life forms are the biomass of the tree.

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.

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

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

Without trees, we cannot inhabit the earth.