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

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.

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

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.

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

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

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.