102 Quotes by Masanobu Fukuoka

Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal

Jika kita mengelami krisis bahan makanan bukanlah disebabkan oleh daya produktifitas alam yang tidak mencukupi, melainkan oleh keinginan manusia yang berlebih-lebihan

Tujuan akhir bertani bukanlah penanaman tanaman tetapi pengembangan dan penyempurnaan keadaan manusia

Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni

Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka

Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.

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.

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.