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• The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts…
• Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea,…
• Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
• Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is…
• There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
• It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might…
• We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
• Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It…
• Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;…
• The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
• Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural…
• Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

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