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Self-Sufficiency
The state of not requiring any outside aid, support, or (in hardline cases) interaction, for survival. Self reliance.
Sustainability
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Permaculture
Permaculture is the design of human living spaces around environmental principles.
Permaculture is not an end or destination, but rather a means or road leading towards sustainable and ecologically sound ways to meet human needs.
Permaculture uses thoughtful observation rather than mindless labor. It uses cunning not resources. It works to slow the rate of increase of entropy (disorder). It turns waste to resources problems into assets. Permaculturists treat every situation differently work parallel to nature not at right angles to it. They care for the earth, care for people, give away surplus, and always pick up hitch-hikers.
Inspiration
- "Let us listen to our mother Earth, as we did when we were young."
- "The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children."
- "Cooperation, not competition, is the very basis of future survival and of existing life systems."
- "There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.” - Brooke Medicine Eagle
- "The Earth was not given to us by our parents, it is loaned to us by our children. The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth." - Chief Seattle, 1854
- "I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other." -Pete Seeger
- "You will find it absolutely necessary to leave the city. Urban living is spiritually suicidal. The cities of America are about to crumble as did Rome and Babylon. Go to the land. Go to the sea." -Timothy Leary
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