I never go up there trying to hit a home run
Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.
the end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.
The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
. . . the laws of physics and of logic. . . the number system. . . the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.
Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now ask whether they have to do it all.