Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

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

I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.

You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.

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

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

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