If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.

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.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system

The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about."

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