I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.

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

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

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

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.