Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes
Top 33 wise famous quotes and sayings by Masanobu Fukuoka
Masanobu Fukuoka Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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 ...
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.
Of course, I have made mistakes ... just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!
The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.
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.
My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.
Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.
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.
If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.
We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about