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

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.

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.

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

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 felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, I had worshiped the great god News on a daily basis.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

I'm against Trans-Pacific Partnership now. I'll be against it after the election. I'll be against it when I'm president.

I want to make America better!

It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from close range.

I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.