You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
Bill MollisonBrambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
Bill MollisonTo create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
Bill MollisonThough the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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