Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled,… — 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
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
The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment. — 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
