List of Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes

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.

If A Farmer Does Abandon His Or Her "tame" Fields Completely To Nature, Mistakes And Destruction Are Inevitable.

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.

As Far As My Planting Program Goes, I Simply Broadcast Rye And Barley Seed On Separate Fields In The Fall . . . While The Rice In Those Areas Is Still Standing. A Few Weeks After That I Harvest The Rice, And Then Spread Its Straw Back Over The Fields As Mulch.

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

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!

Straw Mulch, A Ground Cover Of White Clover Interplanted With The Crops, And Temporary Flooding All Provide Effective Weed Control In My Fields.

I Wonder How It Is That People's Philosophies Have Come To Spin Faster Than The Changing Seasons.

Before Researchers Become Researches They Should Become Philosophers.

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.

Gradually I Came To Realize That The Process Of Saving The Desert Of The Human Heart And Revegetating The Actual Desert Is Actually The Same Thing.

I Believe That Even 'returning-to-nature' And Anti Pollution Activities, No Matter How Commendable, Are Not Moving Toward A Genuine Solution If They Are Carried Out Solely In Reaction To The Over Development Of The Present Age.