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

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

Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we should instead, realize that we are receiving that which nature decides to give us. 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 farmer has very little influence over that process... other than being there and doing his or her small part.

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

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

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.