If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a produ….

I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other..

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can ….

Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thought….

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there….

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

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality.

Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their con….

People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well..

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….

Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans o….

I think mine is a very rich life..

Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they g….

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

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….

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 s….

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 ….

Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything..

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

There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train a….

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