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But intending to understand ten things, you actually do not understand even one. If you know a hundred flowers you do not "know" a single one. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have come to think that if they do not prepare food with elaborate seasonings, the meal will be tasteless. If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be closer to the source of things than trade or manufacturing, and the farmer was said to be "the cupbearer of the gods." He was always able to get by somehow or other and have enough to eat. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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In nature's cyclical rhythms, there are no grounds for the discriminatory view that underlies Darwin's view of superiority and inferiority that deems single-celled organisms as lower, and more complicated life forms as higher. It would be more appropriate to say we are all one continuous life-form. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert
that is the path society must follow. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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As far as my planting program goes, I simply broadcast rye and barley seed on separate fields in the fall ... while the rice in those areas is still standing. A few weeks after that I harvest the rice, and then spread its straw back over the fields as mulch. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament. Fast rather than slow, more rather than less - this flashy "development" is linked directly to society's impending collapse. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively understand what needs to be done - and what must not be done - to work in harmony with its processes. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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We can never know the answers to great spiritual questions, but it's all right not to understand. We have been born and are living on the earth to face directly the reality of living. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing blocks of desire, philosophy, or religion ... the person who has the mind and heart of a child. One must simply know nature ... real nature, not the one we think we know! -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself! -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Of course, I have made mistakes ... just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes! -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Food and medicine are not two different things: the are the front and back of one body. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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I believe that if one fathoms deeply one's own neighborhood and the everyday world in which he lives, the greatest of worlds will be revealed. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything ... they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Nature does not change, although the way of viewing nature invariably changes from age to age. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation ... o f human beings! -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community ... -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The heart that loves the wicked ego creates the hated enemy. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise. The -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers. -- Masanobu Fukuoka