Toby Hemenway

Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement…

— Toby Hemenway

“The average yard is both an ecological and agricultural desert. The prime offender is short-mown grass, which offers no habitat and nothing…

— Toby Hemenway

Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.

— Toby Hemenway

Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface

— Toby Hemenway

I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want…

— Toby Hemenway

When you are doing work of value, people will support you in a variety of ways, not just money.

— Toby Hemenway

A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.

— Toby Hemenway

Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance

— Toby Hemenway

Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate…

— Toby Hemenway

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch;…

— Toby Hemenway

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

— Toby Hemenway