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

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.

We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.

We don't have any power of creation - we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

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