There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song
Masanobu FukuokaA 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.
Masanobu FukuokaI wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.
Masanobu FukuokaNatural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.
Masanobu FukuokaI 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.
Masanobu FukuokaWhen a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do. Engineers cannot seem to get this through their heads. These countermeasures are all based on too narrow a definition of what is wrong. Human measures and countermeasures proceed from limited scientific truth and judgment. A true solution can never come about in this way.
Masanobu Fukuoka