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

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.

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

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.

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.

One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.