Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us.

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.