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.

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

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

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

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.

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.