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

One of the most important discoveries I made in those early years was that to succeed at natural farming, you have to get rid of your expectations. Such "products" of the mind are often incorrect or unrealistic . . . and can lead you to think you've made a mistake if they're not met.

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

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.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.