I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

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

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

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.

At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.