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.

Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.

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.

The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

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

Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.