什麼是樸門?
簡單來說，它是一個設計系統，而根據創始者 Bill Mollison 所言：
“Permaculture design is a system of assembling conceptual, material, and strategic components in a pattern which functions to benefit life in all it’s forms.”
樸門設計是一個系統，它將概念、原料跟策略三種元素結合為一個模式，而這個模式能造福各個層面的生態/生活。”
” Permaculture is living a conscious life thinking about where materials come from and where they will go at their end of life and choosing to minimise the impact, do without, or to compensate in another way. A life designed in this way supports a diversity of life and healthier air, water, and soil.
樸門對我來說，是一種有意識的生活；思考各項物品的原物料來源及使用年限的終點，用行動做出選擇來降低或補償對地球的影響。用這樣的設計及思考模式生活，可以支持多元生態、更健康的土地、空氣和水。
The philosophy behind permaculture is one of working with, rather than against, nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions, rather than asking only one yield of them; and of allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions.” -Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual, 1988