Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.

Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers

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.

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

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

Women spend the money of society on its goods.