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

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

One of the most important discoveries I made in those early years was that to succeed at natural farming, you have to get rid of your expectations. Such "products" of the mind are often incorrect or unrealistic . . . and can lead you to think you've made a mistake if they're not met.

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

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

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

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.