To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.

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.

I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.