Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot."

You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

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.

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.

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

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.