Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!

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

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

Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.

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

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.