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Masanobu Fukuoka

Masanobu Fukuoka (Japanese: 福岡正信, Hepburn: Fukuoka Masanobu, 2 February 1913 – 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, no-herbicide grain cultivation farming methods traditional to many indigenous cultures, from which he created a particular method of farming, commonly referred to as "natural farming" or "do-nothing farming".

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The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

Control, Disease, Environment, Healthy, Insect, Thinking

Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.

Farming, Natural, Person, Practice

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

Age, Anti, Believe, Moving

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

Delicious, Food, Made, Make, Trying

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, Deep Understanding, Lead, Practice, Spiritual, Strictly

Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

Convenience, Law, Needs, Tests, Tiny

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!

Block, Children, Easily, Person, Philosophy, Religion

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.

Real, Needs, Done, Person, Harmony, Work

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

Creating, Greening, Heart, Mean, Peace, Seeds

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.

Decision, Fall, Fertilizers, Matter, Stop

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

Accomplish, Doe, Trying

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.

Caring, Farming, Hands, Small, War

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

Garden, Agriculture, Goal, Ultimate, Perfection, Growing

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

Giving Up, Ego, Way, Nature, Unification

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.

Back, Desert, Path, Sowing, Task, Tasks

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

Animal, Earth, Fertility, Left

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

Beings, Crops, Farming, Growing, Human

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

Balance, Doors, Mother, Pitchfork, Throw, Window

We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about

Bring, Come, Movement, Point, Way

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

Human, Humans, Irony, Shows, Small

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