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.

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."

I think mine is a very rich life.

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.

We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.