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.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

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

The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

Pollution is an unused resource.

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