You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them. Or they'll sit in all the dam sites. Or they'll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.

When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.

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

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

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

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