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.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

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.

You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

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.

When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.