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

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

Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we should instead, realize that we are receiving that which nature decides to give us. 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 farmer has very little influence over that process... other than being there and doing his or her small part.

If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.

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

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.

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.