Animal Quote by Bill Mollison

Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the…

— Bill Mollison

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

— Bill Mollison

Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry…

— Bill Mollison

Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of…

— Bill Mollison

The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural…

— Bill Mollison

Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.

— Ian Brown

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

— Toby Hemenway

“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

“Most permaculturists are expert at understanding the relationships between landforms and water harvesting or between soil microorganisms and plant health. But when it comes…

— Juliana Birnbaum Fox

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

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

— David Holmgren

“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