"It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."
- Ray Bradbury

" Principles differ from dogmas in that there are no penalties for error, but only learning from error, which leads to a new evolution. Dogmas are rules which are intended to force centralized control (often by guilt), and it is obvious that every such rule or law represents a failure of the system. It is too late to fail, but never too late to adopt sensible principles for our guidance, and throw away the rule book."
- Bill Mollison
from the permaculture designer's manual