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

The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively understand what needs to be done - and what must not be done - to work in harmony with its processes.

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 ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

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

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