The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem.

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.

Some ideas need to be continually reinvented and rediscovered, particularly an idea like the omnipotence of humans. It takes a long time to give up.

I thought if something was a good idea, we should be able to apply it to ourselves as guinea pigs and do something with it, rather than just tell other people what they should do.

I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.

Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It’s become my identity. If that’s gone, where am I?

Pretty soon, we should see a few large regional blocs dominating global trade. The ones that lower trade barriers faster will grow faster...

I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.