Masanobu Fukuoka Agriculture Quotations

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

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.

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