The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
“But intending to understand ten things, you actually do not understand even one. If you know a hundred flowers you do not “know” a… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
“Food and medicine are not two different things: the are the front and back of one body.” — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
“Kenyataanya ilmu diet barat menciptakan masalah-masalah yang jauh lebih banyak daripada memecahkannya” — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
“Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament. Fast rather than slow, more rather than less—this… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing blocks of… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
