The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

- Masanobu Fukuoka

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

- Masanobu Fukuoka

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

- Masanobu Fukuoka

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…

- Masanobu Fukuoka

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…

- Masanobu Fukuoka

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…

- Masanobu Fukuoka

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

- Masanobu Fukuoka

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…

- Masanobu Fukuoka

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

- Masanobu Fukuoka