Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes

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

Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

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 ...

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

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.

But intending to understand ten things, you actually do not understand even one. If you know a hundred flowers you do not "know" a single one.

Food and medicine are not two different things: the are the front and back of one body.

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

Of course, I have made mistakes ... just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!

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

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

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation ... o f human beings!

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

I believe that if one fathoms deeply one's own neighborhood and the everyday world in which he lives, the greatest of worlds will be revealed.

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

The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise. The

Nature does not change, although the way of viewing nature invariably changes from age to age.

The heart that loves the wicked ego creates the hated enemy.

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

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

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

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

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

Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.

We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

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.

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

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

My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.