Top 26 Quotes About Permaculture
#1. Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system
Bill Mollison
#2. Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance
Toby Hemenway
#3. 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 also suggests that we take care of earth while taking care of people.
Juliana Birnbaum Fox
#4. Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.
David Holmgren
#5. Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself.
Geoff Lawton
#6. Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
Bill Mollison
#7. Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
Bill Mollison
#8. We only invented the word organic because we made things inorganic.
We only invented the word natural because we made things unnatural.
We only invented the word permaculture because we made agriculture.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#9. 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
#10. I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.
Ellen Page
#11. What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions ... These things are also what makes a man a monster.
Shannon Delany
#12. All the world's problems can be solved in a garden.
Geoff Lawton
#13. I don't want success if it comes at the expense of my soul and I don't need love at the expense of my sanity.
Derrick Jaxn
#14. There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
Bertolt Brecht
#15. Nevertheless, after an hour in the tub drinking alone, I felt no closer to solving my dilemma. Instead I was left with an empty bottle of wine, pruney fingers, and more questions.
Penny Reid
#16. See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#17. In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
Hack Wilson
#19. The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#20. What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.
David Suzuki
#22. You don't have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
Bill Mollison
#23. Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.
Bill Mollison
#24. A sacred way of life connects us to the people and places around us. That means that a sacred economy must be in large part a local economy, in which we have multidimensional, personal relationships with the land and people who meet our needs, and whose needs are met in turn.
Juliana Birnbaum Fox
#25. The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.
Sharon Weil
#26. Just off one of the most congested traffic corridors in Los Angeles, tiled with a mosaic of fast-food chains, nail salons, and dollar stores, lies a little green oasis: the Los Angeles Eco-Village (LAEV).
Juliana Birnbaum Fox
