Kenyataanya ilmu diet barat menciptakan masalah-masalah yang jauh lebih banyak daripada memecahkannya.
Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal.
Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka.
Ketika untuk pertama kalinya saya berhasil menanam padi dengan metoda tanpa pengolahan, saya merasa benar-benar puas seperti apa yang dirasakan Colombus ketika ia menemukan benua Amerika.
If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
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.
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.
The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.
Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.
We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a ‘movement’ not to bring anything about.
The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.
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.
As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.
There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything.
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.
Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people’s hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.
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.