There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

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

The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.

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

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.

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!

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.