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.

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

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.

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

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

Of course, I have made mistakes . . . just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!

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