People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything . . . they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.

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

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.

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.

As far as my planting program goes, I simply broadcast rye and barley seed on separate fields in the fall . . . while the rice in those areas is still standing. A few weeks after that I harvest the rice, and then spread its straw back over the fields as mulch.

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.