When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.

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

We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

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.

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an approach combining the sensible utilisation of grasshoppers and grubs as a valuable dried-protein supplement for fish or food pellets, and a combination of soil conditioning, slashing, and de-stocking or re-seeding to restore species balance.