If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death..

Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating..

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….

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much..

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

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 ….

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

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 o….

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….

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much….

Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources in….

Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush.….

When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not d….

Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used ….

I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to say it's about the only organized s….

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency..

You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you….

Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inani….

If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still..

Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All ….

Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods o….