A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

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

We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

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

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.