We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature.

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

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

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

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.