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Global Gardener + Bill Mollison

This podcast episode highlights a documentary series by Bill Mollison called Global Gardener.

Hope you enjoy some permaculture wisdom from all across the world!

This is most likely the first of many episodes to share about Bill Mollison in his amazing video series, ‘Global Gardener’. Global Gardener is a documentary film series about the permaculture approach to sustainable agriculture.

Bill Mollison presents the series’ four episodes—”In the Tropics”, “Dry Lands”, “Cool Climates”, and “Urban”—each of which addresses the application of permaculture principles in a different environmental context.

I highly encourage you to watch all the videos, but here is the audio to learn from Bill’s wisdom while in your garden or hammock – where the permaculture designer becomes a recliner 😉

Bill Mollison, the “Father of Permaculture,” has truly left the world a better place than he found it. As co-founder of the system of Permaculture with David Holmgren , he created a holistic design system that emulates systems that exist in Nature to create sustainable human settlements and food production systems which integrate harmoniously with the natural environment.

Bill developed the Permaculture Institute and a formalized system for training Permaculture practitioners. His pioneering work had a broad and far-reaching global influence, directly impacted hundreds of thousands of lives, and indirectly affecting many millions more worldwide in a profound and positive way.

I will now let Bill speak for himself with a few of my favorite quotes…

“The impetus for the work I do is to leave our children gardens, not deserts.”

  – Bill Mollison

 “Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.”
 

―  Bill Mollison, Introduction to Permaculture

“I teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.”

  – Bill Mollison

“Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system.”

  – Bill Mollison

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“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.”

  – Bill Mollison

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