- Observe & Interact
- Capture & store energy
- Obtain a yield
- Apply self-regulation & accept feedback
- Use & value renewable resource & services
- Produce no Waste
- Design from Patterns to details
- Integrate Rather than segregate
- Use small & slow solutions
- Use & value diversity
- Optimize edge
- Creatively Use and respond to change
Permaculture as a desing system contains nothing new. It arranges what was always there in a different way, so that it works to converserve energy or to generate more energy than it consues.
What is novel, and often overlooked , ia that any system of total common-sense design for human communities is revolutionary! - Bill Mollison
Observe and interact - let the landscape be your textbook