We Must Find Our Way Back To

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.