Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“Cultures throughout the world and throughout history that developed stable, sustainable relationships with nature did so through observation—a primary principle in permaculture.” — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to… — Geoff Lawton Copy Share Image
“Just off one of the most congested traffic corridors in Los Angeles, tiled with a mosaic of fast-food chains, nail salons, and… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle. — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for… — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy… — John Ikerd Copy Share Image
If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“I think there has always been a strong crossover between the household- and community-level design in permaculture. From the beginnings of permaculture… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
“Trust is built in many ways: by creating opportunities to share something of our lives and feelings, by encouraging people to argue… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over… — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“Each such cycle is a unique event; diet, choice, selection, season, weather, digestion, decomposition and regeneration differ each time it happens. Thus,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive. — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen -… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“A sacred way of life connects us to the people and places around us. That means that a sacred economy must be… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
