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

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

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.

To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.

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.

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