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

Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.

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

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

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.

Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.

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.