Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an approach combining the sensible utilisation of grasshoppers and grubs as a valuable dried-protein supplement for fish or food pellets, and a combination of soil conditioning, slashing, and de-stocking or re-seeding to restore species balance.

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.

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of real life. Some of the old middle-Eastern societies had downdraft systems over whole cities, and passive, rapid-evaporation ice-making systems. They were rational people using good physical principles to make themselves comfortable without additional sources of energy.

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.

I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality