We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.

Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot."

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

Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

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

Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.