Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes About Rice

Quotes about: Rice

• 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.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Real, Believe, Light

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

• 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.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Fall, Decision, Plowing

  Masanobu Fukuoka (1987). “The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy”, Japan Publications (USA)

• 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.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Fall, Fields, Week

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