There Is No One So Great As

One Thing Is All Things. To Resolve One Matter, One Must Resolve All Matters. Changing One Thing Changes All Things. Once I Made The Decision To Sow Rice In The Fall, I Found That I Could Also Stop Transplanting, And Plowing, And Applying Chemical Fertilizers, And Preparing Compost, And Spraying Pesticides.

There Is No Time In Modern Agriculture For A Farmer To Write A Poem Or Compose A Song

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.

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.

Of Course, I Have Made Mistakes . . . Just As Every Grower Does. However, I Never Really Think Of Them As Mistakes!