Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .

When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

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.