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.

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.

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

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing blocks of desire, philosophy, or religion . . . the person who has the mind and heart of a child. One must simply know nature . . . real nature, not the one we think we know!

People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything . . . they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.