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.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

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

At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

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.

Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.

If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.