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.

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

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.

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

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains