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

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.

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

Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.