When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.

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.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.