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

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.

Your tears are my prayers.

We are united by the bond of love.

You cannot predict the future but you can love and then love some more.

We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.

I think writing is one of the toughest things.

Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.

I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.

My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.