The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

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

When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do. Engineers cannot seem to get this through their heads. These countermeasures are all based on too narrow a definition of what is wrong. Human measures and countermeasures proceed from limited scientific truth and judgment. A true solution can never come about in this way.

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

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.

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