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.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.

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

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.