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

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

Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .

Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything . . . they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.

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.