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Bill Mollison

It sometimes seems
that we are caught, 
all of us on earth, 
in a conscious or unconscious conspiracy
to keep ourselves helpless.

And yet it is people 
who produce all the needs 
of other people, 
and together 
we can survive. 

We ourselves can 
cure the famine, 
all the injustice, 
and all the stupidity of the world. 

We can do it by understanding the way natural systems work, 
by careful forestry and gardening, 
by contemplation 
and by taking care of the earth.



Bill Mollison has a special way of looking at the world
He told me that after six weeks living alone in the forest, 
he felt that he was one of the trees, such was the affinity
A reformed fisherman, reformed logger 
and reformed university lecturer('the world can do without universities, 
but cannot do without the forest'), 
Bill has no false respect for 'authority' and governments 
('always watching their back, so they can't see ahead') and aid agencies 
('they all shoot around in 4-wheel toyotas in an incredible do-nothing cycle 
impressing their friends, when they could get their hands dirty and plant a tree')

If you haven't read his books, 
you've missed the turning point of the earth