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.

If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

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

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.