Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable…

Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs…

— Bill Mollison

It must be acknowledged that an increasing proportion of the world's population is living in cities, in almost completely human-made environments. But we should…

— David Wong

I’m going to argue here that the most accurate and least muddled way to think of permaculture is as a design approach, and that…

— Toby Hemenway

Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame…

— Geoff Lawton

“Permaculture land-use ethics invite us to protect intact ecosystems where they remain and, where ecosystems have been destroyed, to help restore them. Permaculture design…

— Juliana Birnbaum Fox

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

— Herbert Hoover

Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their laws; and…

— Orson Pratt

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

— Gary Hustwit

“A balance between sustainable ecology and sustainable human life, on the one hand, and the unfettered drive for profit, on the other, is just…

— David Suzuki

Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and…

— Martin Luther

We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed…

— Chiara Lubich

Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.

— Arianna Huffington

City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing…

— William P. Young

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

— David Korten

I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something…

— Michael Ende