I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.

Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers

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

I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

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

I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to say it's about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.