Alternative Nation - Bill Mollison

"First we must learn to grow, build, and manage natural
systems for human and earth needs, and then teach others
to do so. In this way, we can build a global, interdependent,
and cooperative body of people involved in ethical land and
resource use, whose teaching is founded on research but is
also locally available everywhere, and locally demonstrable
in many thousands of small enterprises covering the whole
range of human endeavours, from primary production to
quaternary system management; from domestic nutrition
and economy to a global network of small financial systems.
Such work is urgent, important, and necessary, and we
cannot leave it to the whims of government (always short term)
or industry as we know it today.

Bill Mollison "Permaculture - A Designers' Manual"
Chapter 14 "Strategies for an alternative nation"