Occupation: Author Birth: 1928 Death: September 24, 2016
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman..
The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simpl….
If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fir….
Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inani….
You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need….
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them..
There are only four things in all cleaners - whether it's shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and….
Once you've said to yourself, "But I'm not using my physics in my house," or "I'm not using my ecology in my garden, I've never applied it to what I ….
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains.
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple..
There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not..
Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to….
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children..
I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, th….
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world..
If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People like that ….
Pollution is an unused resource..
I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things..
I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent su….
One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - i….
Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement ….