Quotes by Masanobu Fukuoka

Masanobu Fukuoka

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.

Doe

Farmers

Process

Although natural farming – since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature – may lead to spiritual insight, it’s not strictly a spiritual practice.

Deep Understanding

Practice

Spiritual

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.

Fall

Fields

Week

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Killing

Wells

World

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

Philosopher

Research

Should

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!

Green

Tree

Way

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation…o f human beings!

Crops

Farming

Growing

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

Ego

Giving Up

Way

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.

Desert

Heart

Saving

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.

Believe

Light

Real

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Age

Agriculture

Animal

Attitude

Balance

Believe

Block

Caring

Children

Community

Country

Crops

Decision

Deep Understanding

Definitions

Delicious

Desert

Discovery

Disease

Doe

Done

Doors

Dream

Earth

Ego

Essence

Everyday

Fall

Farmers

Farming

Farms

Fertility

Fields

Garden

Giving Up

Goal

Grateful

Greed

Green

Growing

Hands

Hatred

Healing

Healthy

Heart

Humanity

Humans

Ignorance

Irony

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Quotes by Masanobu Fukuoka

Masanobu Fukuoka

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.

Although natural farming – since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature – may lead to spiritual insight, it’s not strictly a spiritual practice.

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.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

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!

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation…o f human beings!

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

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.

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