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.

Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.

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

If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.

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

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains