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

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

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

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

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

The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively understand what needs to be done - and what must not be done - to work in harmony with its processes.

We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature.