Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively understand what needs to be done - and what must not be done - to work in harmony with its processes.

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

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

By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.