Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.

My students are constantly amazing me.

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

If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).