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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.

Permaculture: A Designers' Manual - 1988.

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When greed was all my love, My strength was none There is no seed, For those who plant a stone.

Permaculture 1.

Greed, Love

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One thinks of ownership and of earth One shapes the form of death and one, rebirth.

Permaculture 1.

Death

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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.

Permaculture: A Designers' Manual - 1988.

Money

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This book is dedicated to the children and grandchildren of humanity, whose fate and future lie with us.

Acknowledgement - Permaculture 1.

Family, Humanity

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In any group endeavour, there are practical and effective, or impractical and ineffective, ways to manage a complex system. Impractical, frustrating, and time-consuming systems are those governed by large boards, assemblies, or groups - seven or more people. These "meetings" have a chairperson, agendas, proposals, votes, or use concensus, and can go on for hours. Concensus, in particular, is an endless and pointless affair, with coercion of the often silent or incoherent abstainer by a vociferous minority. Thus, decisions reached by boards, parliaments, and concensus groups either oppress some individuals (votes) or are vetoed by dissenters. In either case, we have tyranny of a majority or tyranny of a minority, and a great deal of frustration and wasted time. The way to abolish such systems is to have one meeting where the sole agenda is to vote to abolish decision meetings - this is usually carried unanimously - and another where a concensus is reached to abolish concensus - this too shouldn't take long.

Permaculture: A Designers' Manual - 1988.

Age, Politics

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A people without an agreed-upon common basis to their actions is neither a community nor a nation. A people with a common ethic is a nation wherever they live. Thus, the place of habitation is secondary to a shared belief in the establishment of an harmonious world community. Just as we can select a global range of plants for a garden, we can select from all extant ethics and beliefs those elements that we see to be sustainable, useful, and beneficial to life and to our community.

Permaculture: A Designers' Manual - 1988.

Society

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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.

Permaculture: A Designers' Manual - 1988.

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Take off your cloak of dread Take up the seed Learning to grow is love Fear is the root of greed.

Permaculture 1.

Greed, Love

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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 of the experts and do the job yourself.

Permaculture: A Designers' Manual - 1988.

Co-operation, Food

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