Women spend the money of society on its goods.

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

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

What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.