Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless whole. There are profound limits to science that must be recognized if we are to minimize the destructive consequences of using the powers provided by scientific discovery.

What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

You are what you do, not what you say.

Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.