Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.

I think mine is a very rich life.

I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to say it's about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.

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