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.

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

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

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

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.

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

We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.