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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.

— Bill Mollison Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988)

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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.

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

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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.

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