If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.

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.

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

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

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