We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about

People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything . . . they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.

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

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.

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

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.

Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .