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.

Of course, I have made mistakes . . . just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

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.

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

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.