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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community ...
— Masanobu Fukuoka
As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Food and medicine are not two different things: the are the front and back of one body.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Of course, I have made mistakes ... just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation ... o f human beings!
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise. The
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Nature does not change, although the way of viewing nature invariably changes from age to age.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about
— Masanobu Fukuoka
There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything
— Masanobu Fukuoka
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
The heart that loves the wicked ego creates the hated enemy.
— Masanobu Fukuoka