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Sir Terry Pratchett has such a wonderfully quirky sense of wording, I thought I'd like a spot to record some quotes that reflect things that are important to permaculture. They may be done from memory, so may not be precise - just close.

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“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
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“Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.”

― Terry Pratchett, Eric

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We, his educated rodents.  ‘And yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world’. ‘Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point’? ‘My point exactly’.  
 
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“Ook”

   
 
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I've had this one saved for awhile and no place to post it until now!
Somewhat distantly related to permaculture in my mind.....

"Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?"
Terry Pratchett,
Monstrous Regiment
(Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

 
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From Feet of Clay:
..the old man led the way through the teaming mounds of multispecies dung to the building on the other side of the yard.
"I expect it is good for the garden, anyway," said Vimes, trying to make conversation.
"I tried it on my rhubarb," said the old man, pushing open the door. "But it grew to twenty feet tall, sir, and then spontaneously caught fire.  Mind where the wyvern's been, sir, he's been ill -- oh what a shame. Never mind, it'll scrape off beautifully when it dries.   ... "

Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!

 
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This thread convinced me I ought to pick these up. I’ve started listening to the (older) audiobooks and I feel like they’re giving me spoons every time.

Just finished “Guards! Guards!” on my way to work this morning and about to start “Eric”

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No matter how fast light travels, the darkness always got there first.


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