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.

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

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

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

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