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.

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

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

The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.

I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People like that don't poison things, they don't ruin things, they don't lose soils, they don't build things they can't sustain.