In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to support the family for the whole year. If natural farming were practiced, a farmer would also have plenty of time for… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
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
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
Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“Food and medicine are not two different things: the are the front and back of one body.” — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“Kenyataanya ilmu diet barat menciptakan masalah-masalah yang jauh lebih banyak daripada memecahkannya” — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
