Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.

We don't have any power of creation - we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.