102 Quotes by Masanobu Fukuoka

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

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.

By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!

Of course, I have made mistakes . . . just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!

Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.

People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything . . . they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.