Masanobu Fukuoka

Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path.…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

“But intending to understand ten things, you actually do not understand even one. If you know a hundred flowers you do not…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

“Food and medicine are not two different things: the are the front and back of one body.”

— Masanobu Fukuoka

“Kenyataanya ilmu diet barat menciptakan masalah-masalah yang jauh lebih banyak daripada memecahkannya”

— Masanobu Fukuoka

By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

“Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament. Fast rather than slow, more rather…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

“Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

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

Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part…

— Masanobu Fukuoka