Agriculture is not merely a science it is an art of living which greatly influence each and every minute sector of the nature. Balancing the needs of a growing global population with the demands of biological diversity necessitates significant changes in how humans produce food at the primary level. When the ever-growing population created a global problem starvation, India moved towards green revolution in late 1960s by using high yielding potential varieties, modern machinery, synthetic pesticides as well as fertilizers. The pattern of unethical resource (land) use drags the ecosystem to its edges of tolerance. Permaculture, being a holistic approach of sustainability with its advanced ideologies pave a way for the environmental sustainability. This wholesome concept, with its worldwide ethical designing practices and core principles acts as a potential approach for diversified sustainable agriculture and a salient solution for varied ecological problems. This review highlights the basic structural framework, core principles and designing processes of permaculture and its role in ecological and agricultural sustainability.