Modern Research Divides Nature Into Tiny Pieces

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.

Many People Think That When We Practice Agriculture, Nature Is Helping Us In Our Efforts To Grow Food. This Is An Exclusively Human-centered Viewpoint... We Should Instead, Realize That We Are Receiving That Which Nature Decides To Give Us. 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. The Farmer Has Very Little Influence Over That Process... Other Than Being There And Doing His Or Her Small Part.

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.

I Believe That A Revolution Can Begin From This One Strand Of Straw. Seen At A Glance, This Rice Straw May Appear Light And Insignificant. Hardly Anyone Would Believe That It Could Start A Revolution. But I Have Come To Realize The Weight And Power Of This Straw. For Me, This Revolution Is Very Real.

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