Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

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

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.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

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

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.