Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

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

Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.

People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.