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Pollution is an unused resource.
I think mine is a very rich life.
My students are constantly amazing me.
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.
We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.
We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.
Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.
Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.
I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.
If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.
We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.
The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.
Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.
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.
Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.