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.

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

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.

When 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.

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

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.