Of course, I have made mistakes . . . just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

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

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.

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

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

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.