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

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 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.

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.

We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about