Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes

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• The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

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  Healing, Land, Spirit

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• The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

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  Garden, Agriculture, Goal

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.14, New York Review of Books

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• 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.

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  Sowing, Tasks, Desert

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2013). “Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security”, p.16, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

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  Mother, Doors, Balance

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Practice, Agriculture

  "Masanobu Fukuoka: Japanese Organic Farmer". Interview with Larry Korn, www.motherearthnews.com. July/August 1982.

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• Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

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  Giving Up, Ego, Way

  "Listening To Nature's Voice" by Masanobu Fukuoka, www.freepressjournal.in. April 26, 2017.

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• There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything

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  Trying, Doe, Accomplish

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.157, New York Review of Books

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• 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.

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  Real, Needs, Done

  "Masanobu Fukuoka: Japanese Organic Farmer". Interview with Larry Korn, www.motherearthnews.com. July/August 1982.

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• 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.

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  Believe, Garden, Everyday

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• 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.

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  Doe, Process, Farmers

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• 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.

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  Real, Believe, Light

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.1, New York Review of Books

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• The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

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  Irony, Shows, Humans

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.29, New York Review of Books

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• There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

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  Song, Writing, Agriculture

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• Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.

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  Animal, Earth, Fertility

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• If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.

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  Trying, Made, Delicious

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.137, New York Review of Books

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• The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.

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  Simple, Farms, Universe

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• The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing blocks of desire, philosophy, or religion . . . the person who has the mind and heart of a child. One must simply know nature . . . real nature, not the one we think we know!

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  Children, Block, Philosophy

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

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  People, Farming, Natural

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• The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

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  Peace, Heart, Mean

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• Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .

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  Weed, Play, Community

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• In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to support the family for the whole year. If natural farming were practiced, a farmer would also have plenty of time for leisure and social activities within the village community. I think this is the most direct path toward making this country a happy, pleasant land.

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  Country, Thinking, Years

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• The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

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  Humanity, Trying, Spirit

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.159, New York Review of Books

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• When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

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  Essence, Goal, Perfection

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature.

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  Mother, Prayer, Attitude

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• Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

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  Ignorance, Hatred, Greed

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