Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

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.

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

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

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.

One of the most important discoveries I made in those early years was that to succeed at natural farming, you have to get rid of your expectations. Such "products" of the mind are often incorrect or unrealistic . . . and can lead you to think you've made a mistake if they're not met.