The Ultimate Goal Of Farming Is Not

Many People Think That When We Practice Agriculture, Nature Is Helping Us In Our Efforts To Grow Food. This Is An Exclusively Human-centered Viewpoint... We Should Instead, Realize That We Are Receiving That Which Nature Decides To Give Us. 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. The Farmer Has Very Little Influence Over That Process... Other Than Being There And Doing His Or Her Small Part.

The Irony Is That Science Has Served Only To Show How Small Human Knowledge Is.

One Of The Most Important Discoveries I Made In Those Early Years Was That To Succeed At Natural Farming, You Have To Get Rid Of Your Expectations. Such "products" Of The Mind Are Often Incorrect Or Unrealistic . . . And Can Lead You To Think You've Made A Mistake If They're Not Met.

There Is No One So Great As The One Who Does Not Try To Accomplish Anything

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.