Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them. Or they'll sit in all the dam sites. Or they'll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.

If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

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

I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.