Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoin….

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork..

In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of f….

There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything.

People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create….

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..

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 express….

If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so..

The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe..

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 dese….

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process..

The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively understand what needs to b….

Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life..

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is..

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth..

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about ….

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respect….

The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing blocks of desire, philosop….

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone..

Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . ..