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

Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

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

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