“Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.” MenSelfAnimalPlantSpeciesEvolveIntegratedPermaculturePlants And AnimalsPerpetuating Author: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 stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.” UseEnergyPrinciplesFocusDesignMaterialsResourcesLaborAll ThingsConnectionsStressCoreScalesThoughtfulFuelEfficientFossilsFossil FuelEcologicalLoopsPermaculture Author: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 in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers” WayGivingUseEnergyWaterPrinciplesTechnologyRichAchieveDesignOffersDiversityApproachCreatingLowsResourcesProductionsArchitectureRadicalLandscapeAppropriateYieldStabilityGardeningPollutionUrbanEcologyRenewalIntegratingInputPermacultureDwellersFood ProductionGreat DiversityUrban RenewalUrban And Rural Author:Bill Mollison
“I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.” ThinkingTryingTodayCultureVoiceCommunitySittingWesternBullsWestern CultureHolism Author:Joel Salatin
“If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.” IfsFirstsJobsEffortBest EffortSpanish Proverb Author:Joel Salatin
“You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.” KnowsTodayCultureAsksGrowsGoalBiggerWesternNobleFasterPigsCheaperLinearFragmented Author:Joel Salatin
“When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.” WayAsksAnswersAbsurd Author:Jacque Fresco
“Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.” MenEarthHeroCollectives Author:Jacque Fresco
“It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.” IfsYearsHumansNextNaturalPowerfulTechnologyRecordsDangerTypeActivityDevelopingContrastIntroducingSurvivedUnlikelySurvivingHazardsNew TechnologyHuman Activity Author:Nick Bostrom
