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 a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of…

— 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

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

— 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 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

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

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

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…

— Bill Mollison

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

“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