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 are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People like that don't poison things, they don't ruin things, they don't lose soils, they don't build things they can't sustain.

To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about."