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.

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.

When you saw a wounded who cry out for help, you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

It is easy to hurt people when we do not filter our thoughts, when we do not choose our words, when we do not control the tone of voice and the body language.

Einstein created an unstoppable "intellectual chain reaction, " an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

We drew our inspiration from everyday stories.

Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.

We're very blessed, just very fortunate to have the things we have.