Birnbaum Fox, Juliana (9 de junio de 2010). «Indigenous Science». Cultural Survival Quarterly33 (1) – via Indiana University. «Bill Mollison, often called the 'father of permaculture,' worked with indigenous people in his native Tasmania and worldwide, and credits them with inspiring his work. "I believe that unless we adopt sophisticated aboriginal belief systems and learn respect for all life, then we lose our own," he wrote in the seminal Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual.»
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