One of the most important discoveries I made in those early years was that to succeed at natural farming, you have to get rid of your expectations. Such "products" of the mind are often incorrect or unrealistic . . . and can lead you to think you've made a mistake if they're not met.

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

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

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

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.