If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.

People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.

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

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

Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.