If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.

If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.

My students are constantly amazing me.

Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

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

The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.