Permaculture Design Quotes

“Failures make you wiser. Either way you win.”
― Aranya, Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide

“Only where all these strategies fall short should we consider burning wood or fossil fuels to generate more warmth. Sadly most of us still have to, because we’ve inherited badly designed buildings that face the road more often than they face the sun.”
― Aranya, Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide

“We live in strange times now when many of us don’t provide anything of real value anymore. Until”
― Aranya, Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide

“The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.” To take responsibility is to become more conscious of all our actions. Whenever”
― Aranya, Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide

“I use it to record how well I sleep, what I eat, how much I exercise, how I’m feeling, what my energy levels are like. It allows me to notice patterns that can help me look after myself better. It was through using one that I discovered my intolerance for gluten.”
― Aranya, Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide

“Nature keeps moving, but wherever we go we find a dynamic stability; the river adjusts its course to bypass new obstacles, but still flows from the mountains to the sea.”
― Aranya, Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide

“Allelopathy is a biological phenomenon by which an organism produces one or more biochemicals that influence the growth, survival, and reproduction of others.”
― Aranya, Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide

“While the three sisters guild (beans, corn and squash) works well in the tropics, it doesn’t do so well in Britain’s wetter cool temperate climate;”
― Aranya, Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide

“I like to use the rather ironic example of a hole in the road, to compare permaculture with current thinking. Whereas we tend these days to think only about filling in the hole, a permaculture approach would lead us on a journey of discovery; to also find out what caused the hole to be there in the first place.”
― Aranya, Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide