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

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

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

You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.

What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.

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.

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.