Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and desig…

- David Holmgren

If you understand it from an ecological or sustainability perspective, agriculture is the primary way we meet most of our needs, and it's the greates…

- David Holmgren

If you give up on trying to change larger structures and just go off on what some would say is a personal indulgence or being a survivalist, it can b…

- David Holmgren

Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for…

- David Holmgren

A lot of people do get stuck on the idea that they can't pour energy into something unless they own it. Given the current situation, property ownersh…

- David Holmgren

Some ideas need to be continually reinvented and rediscovered, particularly an idea like the omnipotence of humans. It takes a long time to give up.

- David Holmgren

I thought if something was a good idea, we should be able to apply it to ourselves as guinea pigs and do something with it, rather than just tell oth…

- David Holmgren

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

- David Holmgren

Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic an…

- David Holmgren