By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!

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.

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

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

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.