Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

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.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

I will do what I can

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page?

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

Death pays all debts.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.