We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us.

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.

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

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.

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

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