Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.
The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.
We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song
The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.
We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature.
As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.
Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!
We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about
The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.
A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.
Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.
The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.
Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.
Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.
Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.
If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.
Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.
The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.
Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .
My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.
Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.
I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.
Of course, I have made mistakes . . . just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!
I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.
If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.
Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.
By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!
Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution.
Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.