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.

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

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!

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.

We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.