Quotes by Bill Mollison

Bill Mollison

Australian author, teacher and biologist

Lived from: 1928 - 2016

Category: Scientists | Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 4 may 1928 Died: 24 september 2016

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  • Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 9.1
    ― Bill Mollison
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  • If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 14.2
    ― Bill Mollison
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  • Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 4.4
    ― Bill Mollison
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  • Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use or value them creatively.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 4.7
    ― Bill Mollison
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  • There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 14.10
    ― Bill Mollison
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  • 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: A Designers Manual chapter 3.10
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What are the most famous quotes from Bill Mollison?

The two most famous quotes from Bill Mollison are:

  • "Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails."
  • "If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere."

When did Bill Mollison live?

Bill Mollison was born in 1928 and died in the year 2016.