There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

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

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.

One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.