[Sdpg] A collection of quotes about Permaculture, shamelessly borrowed from http://permaculture.org/ :)

[Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

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A collection of quotes about Permaculture, shamelessly borrowed from 
http://permaculture.org/ :)

Greg Peterson, - The art and science of living with nature.

Graham Bell, The Permaculture Way - Permaculture is the conscious design 
and maintenance of agriculturally productive systems which have the 
diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the 
harmonious integration of the landscape with people providing their food, 
energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable
way.

Simon Henderson  - Permaculture is the use of ecology as the 
basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing 
appropriate technology and community development. It offers a practical, 
creative approach to the problems of diminishing resources and threatened 
life support systems now facing the world.

Guy Baldwin, - Permaculture is a holistic approach to 
landscape design and human culture. It is an attempt to integrate several 
disciplines, including biology, ecology, geography, agriculture, 
architecture, appropriate technology, gardening and community building.

Dan Hemenway - Permaculture integrates people into Nature's design. A 
permaculture design provides us with shelter, food, water, income, 
community and aesthetic and spiritual fulfillment within a balanced and 
healthy biological community. - Permaculture is Applied Science and 
Ecology; Ethical design of human systems for a sustainable future. It 
offers practical solutions to the global environmental and cultural crises 
we now face. - Permaculture (Permanent Culture) is the conscious design and 
co-creative evolution of agriculturally productive ecosystems and 
cooperative and economically just social systems which have the diversity, 
stability and resilience of 'natural' systems. It is the harmonious 
integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter 
and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. The 
practice and development of liberating mental, emotional and spiritual ways 
of being. It seeks to provide a sustainable and secure place for living 
things on this earth.

Grailville Workshop: - Permaculture is a way of bringing together in a 
sensible system: ourselves and our communities, with whatever bit of 
land/space we are tending. It can be as small as a window with sprouts or 
as large as a farm or a bioregion. It can be in the city, the suburbs or in 
the country. - Permaculture addresses the way we live on this planet in a 
graceful and healthy way, respecting the plants and animals around us, and 
leaving the biosphere in a more productive and healthy state than we found it.

Washburn TN PDC - Permaculture is the conscious design of 'cultivated' 
ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural 
ecosystems. It is a harmonious integration of people into the landscape in 
such a way that the land grows in richness, productivity and aesthetic beauty.

Anon 84 PD - Permaculture is perennial agriculture

Anon 84 PD - Permaculture is an agroecosystem which is designed & 
maintained by its owner/occupiers to provide for their food, energy, 
shelter, and other material a & non-material needs in a sustainable manner. 
Of course not everything happens the way they plan it.

Anon 84 PD - A permaculture is a diverse, complex ecosystem where the 
elements interact in mutually beneficial ways to produce a whole which is 
greater than the sum of its parts.

Jamie Jobb, 84 PD 10 - Permaculture is an approach to agriculture & human 
settlement which seeks a harmonious balance among all forms of life in an 
ecosystem.

Nathan Alexandra, 84 PD - A Permaculture only happens where land & people 
are one.

Anon, 84 PD - Permaculture is the name that has been given to the design & 
creation of self-sustaining productive landscapes which, once established, 
will need the minimum of human intervention. A permaculture design 
incorporates a diversity of species & interrelations between species, & 
allows for the continuous evolution that occurs in Nature. There is a 
succession of species each preparing the environment for the next & all 
moving towards a climax state.

Anon, 84 PD - Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial 
or self-perpetuating plant & animal species useful to man.

Anon, 84 PD - Permaculture is knowing/creating one's outer aspects, to 
connect them in complex webs that catch incoming energies in stable, 
low-entropy zoos.

Dan Hemenway - Permaculture seeks to design sustainable lifestyles based on 
conditions unique to each place and designed according to the same 
principles by which nature integrates other species into her ecosystems. 
While permaculture obtains its design principles through careful study and 
search for comparable principles in nature, permaculture strategies are 
based on the realities of the 20th century.

Anon, 84 PD - Permaculture is logarithmic; the biggest things you see are 
your nose, home, immediate surroundings and internal conditions. Start 
inside & work outward.

Anon, 84 PD - Permaculture is the unhurried, non-threatening dissolution of 
all states, & subsequent reactivation of corporate, investor, government & 
ghetto welfare stubs.

Brian Hutchinson - Permaculture is knowing/creating one's outer aspects, to 
connect them in complex webs that catch incoming energies in stable, 
low-entropy zoos. - Permaculture is logarithmic; the biggest things you see 
are your nose, home, immediate surroundings & internal conditions - start 
inside & work outward. - Permaculture is the unhurried, non-threatening 
dissolution of all states, & subsequent reactivation of corporate, 
investor, government & ghetto welfare stubs. - To lessen existential fears 
through reduction of created wants & abundance of all needs, in the 
broadest sense, that beings may achieve higher conscienceness or whatever.

Bill Mollison - Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than 
against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than 
protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all 
their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system.

Anon, 84 PD - An evolving Permaculture gives witness to present concern, & 
builds a beneficial future legacy.

Anon, 84 PD - Permaculture is a sustainable life support system that can 
maintain life for more than 20 years ( as opposed to the fossil fuel based 
system that may not last that long).

Bill Mollison - Permaculture. A copyright word, owned as a common copyright 
by the Permaculture Institutes & their graduates. Derived from `Permanent` 
and `Culture`, as follows: Permanent: From the Latin permanens, to remain 
to the end, to persist throughout (per = through, manere = to continue) - 
Culture: From the Latin cultura - cultivation of land, or the intellect. 
Now generalized to mean all those habits, beliefs, or activities than 
sustain human societies. - Thus, Permaculture is the study of the design of 
those sustainable or enduring systems that support human society, both 
agricultural & intellectual, traditional & scientific, architectural, 
financial & legal. It is the study of integrated systems, for the purpose 
of better design & application of such systems.

Bill Mollison - Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than 
against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than 
protracted & thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their 
functions rather than asking only one yield of them & of allowing systems 
to demonstrate their own evolutions.

CA 97 flyer - Permaculture, from PERManent agriCULTURE, is a practical 
system of ecological design. Employing powerful natural patterns, you can 
design & build profitable, sustainable, productive ecosystems which have 
the diversity, stability & resilience of natural ecosystems.

Dawn Shiner - Permaculture...an ethical design tool, creating 
sustainability through the integration of diversity, stability, & 
resilience in ecologically-sound, economically-viable human environments 
respecting the whole of creation.

Anon - Permaculture is a world-wide movement of designers, teachers, & 
grassroots activists working to restore damaged ecosystems & human 
communities. Permaculture derives practical techniques & principles from 
the study of natural systems & applies them to earth repair & care.

Patricia DuBose Michael - Permaculture is the harmonious integration of 
people into the landscape in such a way that the land grows in richness & 
aesthetic beauty.

Ben Haggard, PDI inside cover #19 - Permaculture is a design system that 
reconciles human communities with the ecological imperatives of a living 
planet. Permaculture design may be used to restore ecosystems, create 
sustainable farms & healthy towns, & promote economic systems that support 
Earth care. - Permaculture provides an ethical & holistic foundation for 
sustainable culture. The principles are derived from three basic ethics: 
Care for the Earth; Care for people; Limit needs & reinvest in the future. 
- The core emphasis of permaculture is that landscapes are complex & 
integrated wholes. Ecosystems are healthy & relatively stable when their 
parts are connected in a diverse web of relationships. In a Permaculture 
design, decisions flow naturally from observations of these relationships. 
Decisions that arise from connection are inherently functional & frequently 
beautiful. - Permaculture uses the energies of wind, sun, water, soil & the 
myriad biological processes of the world's organisms. These powerful 
energies, used appropriately, assist in reclaiming soils. Forest, prairie, 
& river systems regenerate. waste products are minimal & reused. Human 
Communities provide for their own needs in small, efficient farms & 
gardens, allowing the broad landscape to return to health. - Permaculture 
is a body of knowledge, susceptible to learning & teaching. But it is is 
also a way of organizing knowledge, a connecting system that integrates 
science, art, politics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, & the diverse 
experiences & resources available in any community.

Anon - Permaculture is a design system that works toward establishing 
productive environments - providing for food, shelter, energy, waste 
recycling, material & non-material need - as well as the social & economic 
infrastructures that support them. It aims to create systems that will 
sustain the present as well as future generations.

Peter Bane - Permaculture is the conscious design of `cultivated` 
ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, & resilience of natural 
ecosystems. It is a harmonious integration of people into the landscape in 
such a way that the land grows in richness, productivity, and aesthetic 
beauty. - Permaculture is an ethical design system for creating human 
environments that are ecologically sound & economically viable. 
Permaculture systems provide for their own needs, do not exploit or 
pollute, & are therefore sustainable.

Bill Mollison & Scott Pittman, La Tierra Community CA PDC flyer - 
Permaculture (Permanent Agriculture) is the conscious design and 
maintenance of cultivated ecosystems which have the diversity, stability & 
resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of 
landscape, people & appropriate technologies, providing good, shelter, 
energy & other needs in a sustainable way. Permaculture is a philosophy and 
an approach to land use which works with natural rhythms & patterns, 
weaving together the elements of microclimate, annual & perennial plants, 
animals, water & soil management, & human needs into intricately connected 
& productive communities.

Anon - Permaculture, or permanent (agri)culture, means working with natural 
forces - wind, sun, & water - to provide food, shelter, water & other needs 
with minimum labor & without depleting the land. Permaculture is a holistic 
approach based on traditional agricultural practices.

Anon - Permaculture is a design system which applies ecological principles 
& appropriate technologies to shelter, water supply, food systems, energy, 
& other aspects of living. Its aim is to create self-maintaining & highly 
productive agricultural ecosystems which have the diversity, stability & 
resilience of natural ecosystems. It is a natural ally to an organic 
approach to building & community development.

Larry Santoyo & Simon Henderson -
Permaculture (permanent-culture) is an innovative science that balances 
community development with ecological sensitivity.

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
sbpcnet at silcom.com
www.sbpermaculture.org

"We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to
grow." - Anonymous