Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods. — 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
The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings! — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
One of the most important discoveries I made in those early years was that to succeed at natural farming, you have to… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding… — 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
Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight,… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field, then the… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should… — 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
