The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.