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.

I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.

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

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

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.