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

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

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently.

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

I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to say it's about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.

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