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

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

I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

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

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

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

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

Reading is the fountain of all knowledge.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

When you focus on results, you will very seldom see a change in your culture. But, if you focus on a customer-centric culture, you will realize long-term results.

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

I used to drink wine. This girl asked me, "Doesn't wine give you a headache?" "Yeah, eventually, but the first and the middle part are amazing!"