I started natural farming ...

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.
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.
 Masanobu Fukuoka

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 Stephen Mallinder
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Quotes from the same author

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.
 Masanobu Fukuoka
If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.
 Masanobu Fukuoka
If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.
 Masanobu Fukuoka
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.
 Masanobu Fukuoka
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.
 Masanobu Fukuoka