Permaculture Quotes

Permaculture Quote of the day

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance

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

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

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

What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.

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

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

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.

You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.

I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.

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.

Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself.

Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.

I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.