Community Quote by Juliana Birnbaum Fox

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

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 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

I want to create a permaculture society.

— Bez

What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a…

— David Suzuki

The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to develop while…

— David Rockwell

“By going beyond solidarity, individualised lifestyle changes, I saw the incredible transformation that comes from building community power. By building this power, we can…

— Mikaela Loach

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

I am talking about ordinary people making the link between their communities being treated as disposable and the assumption that the environments they depend…

— Rob Nixon

If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and…

— Larry Towell

The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around…

— Geoffrey Jellicoe

“Community is like a garden, it is an organic living thing; if it is neglected, it can overgrow with weeds and suffer decline. Communities…

— Cory Bernardi