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.

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.

Nurturing self-confidence is a daily endeavour.

No man is a hero to his own wife no woman is a wife to her own hero.

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

Good people drink good beer.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

Let me shake it off I just signed a couple deals I might break you off

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

The bumps are what you climb on.