The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

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

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.

Of course, I have made mistakes . . . just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!

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.

Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.

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