Permaculture

A Designers’ Manual

by Bill Mollison

Tagari Publications, 1992, [Reprinted September], ISBN 0908228015, colour photographic plates, black and white photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout, illustrated boards, hardcover

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing, bumping and chipping to covers, previous owner’s inscription marked out on front endpaper, age toned edges (see photographs)

“Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.  It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way.  Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.
Permaculture design is a system of assembling conceptual, material, and strategic components in a pattern which functions to benefit life in all its forms.
The philosophy behind permaculture is one of working with, rather than against, nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions, rather than asking only one yield of them; and of allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions.”

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