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

In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to support the family for the whole year. If natural farming were practiced, a farmer would also have plenty of time for leisure and social activities within the village community. I think this is the most direct path toward making this country a happy, pleasant land.

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

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

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.

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.