Frases de Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison

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Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison

Fecha de nacimiento: 4. Mayo 1928
Fecha de muerte: 24. Septiembre 2016

Bruce Charles Mollison fue un biólogo, investigador, científico, profesor, activista y naturalista australiano.

Conocido como 'padre de la permacultura', un sistema de diseño integrado u holista desarrollado conjuntamente con David Holmgren que enlaza agricultura, geografía, arquitectura, ganadería, edafología, economía, sociología y agroecología, avanzando en su conexión con estrategias de acceso a las tierras y sistemas legales de grupos sociales y empresas.

Recibió el Premio Right Livelihood en 1981 junto con Patrick van Rensburg. Bill Mollison falleció el 24 de septiembre de 2016, a la edad de 88 años. Wikipedia

Frases Bruce Charles "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 …“

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—  Bill Mollison

Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 4.8

„There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.“

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—  Bill Mollison

Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 14.10

„For priority in location, we need to first attend to Zone 1 and Zone 2; these support the household and save the most expense. What is perhaps of greatest importance, and cannot be too highly stressed, is the need to develop very compact systems. … We can all make a very good four meters square garden, where we may fail to do so in 40 square meters.“

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—  Bill Mollison

Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 3.15

„Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.“

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—  Bill Mollison

Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 14.2

„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.“

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—  Bill Mollison

Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 14.2

„Of all the elements of critical importance to plants, phosophorus is the least commonly found, and sources are rarely available locally. Of all the phosphatic fertilisers used, Europe and North America consume 75% (and get least return from this input because of overuse, over-irrigation, and poor soil economy). If we really wanted to reduce world famine, the redirection of these surplus phosphates to the poor soils of Africa and India (or any other food-deficient area) would do it. Forget about miracle plants; we need global ethics for all such essential soil resources. As long as we clear-cultivate, most of this essential and rare resource will end up in the sea.“

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table 8.1
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988)

„…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.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 1.3

„As we read this, we stand in the plane of the present; we are the sum of all our ancestors, and the origin of all our descendents. In terms of our model, we are at an ever-changing origin, located on the boundary of past and future. As well, we are spinning with the earth, spiralling with the galaxy, and expanding or contracting with the universe. As origins, we are on the move in time and space, and all these movements have a characteristic pulse rate.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 4.19

„It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 14.10

„It is possible, in Iran, Greece, North Africa, USA, Mexico, Pakistan, and Australia to see how, in our short history of life destruction, we have brought the hard bones of the earth to the surface by stripping the life skin from it for ephemeral uses. We can, if we persist, create a moon-landscape of the earth. So poor goatherds wander where the lake-forests stood and the forest deities were worshipped. The religions of resignation and fanaticism follow those of the nature gods, and man-built temples replace trees and tree spirits.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 8.20

„It seems curious that we know so much about sheep, so little about those animals which outweigh them per hectare by factors of ten or a hundred times, and that we do not investigate these matters far more seriously. Our most sustainable yields may be grubs or caterpillars rather than sheep; we can convert these invertebrates to use by feeding them to poultry or fish. We can't go wrong in encouraging a complex of life in soils, from roots and mycorrhiza to moles and earthworms, and in thinking of ways in which soil life assists us to produce crop, it itself becomes a crop.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 8.12

„… 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.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 7.1

„Peat preserves timber, animals, and such unexpected treasure-troves as hoards of acorns and firkins of beech butter from the forests which preceded the bogs. A whole archaeology may very well lie in peat, and the pollen record may reveal past history. At the base of Irish bogs the Fir Bolg (the little people), their axes, bridges, butter, and forest life are well preserved. They and their forests were banished, as if by magic, by the Tuatha de Danan (the Children of Diana) who now dig the peat. Diana was displaced in turn by Mary, mother of God. But all are mixed in the peat and the tongue of Ireland.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 9.9

„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.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 3.10

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

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 9.1

„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.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 8.20

„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.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 3.10

„In the fall, acorns, filberts, and hickory nuts are gathered by wildlife as winter stores. Field and pack rats bring in smaller seed such as wild rice from the marshes. If storages are provided, these foragers will fill hollow pipes or logs, or smaller pipes, old vehicle engine manifolds, and nest boxes or wall cavities. Seed so collected is sound, clean, and neatly stored. Providing some 15% is left, and given over to winter food for these workers, 85% can be collected for human use. A few people regularly collect their hickory nuts or wild rice in this way, by providing dens for squirrels or pack rats. It is a question of cooperation and provision for others, instead of attempting to kill off the experts and do the job yourself.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 12.15

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

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 4.7

„Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.“

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Fuente: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 12.15

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