“Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should create.Doctors should first determine at the fundamental level what it is that human beings depend on for life... Modern scientific agriculture, on the other hand, has no such vision. Research wanders about aimlessly, each researcher seeing just one… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share
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
“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
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
