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

I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

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 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.

Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.

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

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality