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

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

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

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

Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

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.

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