If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do. Engineers cannot seem to get this through their heads. These countermeasures are all based on too narrow a definition of what is wrong. Human measures and countermeasures proceed from limited scientific truth and judgment. A true solution can never come about in this way.

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.

Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

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

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.