Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.

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.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

As far as my planting program goes, I simply broadcast rye and barley seed on separate fields in the fall . . . while the rice in those areas is still standing. A few weeks after that I harvest the rice, and then spread its straw back over the fields as mulch.

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

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

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.