Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

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.

I was his exception, and as much as I had tried to fight my feelings, he was mine.

It has been utterly exhausting to love you.

Animalsfattened for your for your arena suffered lessthan you in dying-yours the lawlessnessof something simple that has lost its law, my namesake, and the last Caligula.

Are you telling me Kara Orris is afraid of rain?” Hunter’s grin twisted into a smirk as his eyes lit up, relishing his new discovery with absolute delight. “Why, that’s adorable!

I had come to learn pretty quickly that life has its highs and lows just like the ocean does and sometimes you just have to see how far they'll carry you.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.