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.

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

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

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

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.

One of the most important discoveries I made in those early years was that to succeed at natural farming, you have to get rid of your expectations. Such "products" of the mind are often incorrect or unrealistic . . . and can lead you to think you've made a mistake if they're not met.