Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.

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

We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.

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

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot."