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| The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
— Rachel Carson
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| Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
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| Every designer's dirty little secret is that they copy other designers' work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration.
— Aaron Russell
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| Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
— Eliel Saarinen
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I hate books about poverty that make you feel guilty, as well as dry, academic ones that put you to sleep. Working to alleviate poverty is a lively, exciting field capable of generating new hope and inspiration, not feelings of gloom and doom. Learning the truth about poverty generates disruptive innovations capable of enriching the lives of rich people even more than those of poor people.
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People, their buildings and the ways they organise themselves are central to permaculture. Thus the permaculture vision of permanent (sustainable) agriculture has evolved into one of permanent (sustainable) culture.
— David Holmgren, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability |
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| I love to see projects that make the world a better place manifest. The way a project manifests from inception, brainstorming, researching, creating, testing, iterating, promoting, etc. always fill me with wonder and excitement. There is no one way that it unfolds, but my favorite ways to be part of are those that are collaborative.
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| All exceptional abilities initially arise as defenses.
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| All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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| He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
— Benjamin Franklin
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| Thinking is good, but doing is better.
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| Observe Nature thoroughly rather than labor thoughtlessly.
— Masanobu Fukuoka, One Straw Revolution
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| You don't have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
— Bill Mollison
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| Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments. The word itself is a contraction not only of permanent and agriculture but also of permanent culture, as cultures cannot survive for long without a sustainable agricultural base and landuse ethic.
— Bill Mollison, Introduction to Permaculture
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| We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.
— David Suzuki
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| We must not build housing, we must build communities.
— Mike Burton
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| 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people. That’s nearly 3 times the U.S. population.
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| The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that ‘W-A-T-E-R’ meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
— Helen Keller
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| Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
— W. H. Auden
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