We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.

Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.

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

You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.

Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.

That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.