"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

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

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

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

Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.