I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

My students are constantly amazing me.

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about."

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.