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

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

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

I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.