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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.

— 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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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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