Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we should instead, realize that we are receiving that which nature decides to give us. 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 expresses its being. The farmer has very little influence over that process... other than being there and doing his or her small part.

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.

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 respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds.

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

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

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

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.