Top 55 Masanobu Quotes
#1. As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.
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#2. People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything ... they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.
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#3. The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise. The
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#4. 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.
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#5. Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.
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#6. The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.
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#7. Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.
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#8. Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation ... o f human beings!
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#9. Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.
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#10. There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.
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#11. In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be closer to the source of things than trade or manufacturing, and the farmer was said to be "the cupbearer of the gods." He was always able to get by somehow or other and have enough to eat.
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#12. The heart that loves the wicked ego creates the hated enemy.
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#13. 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!
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. In nature's cyclical rhythms, there are no grounds for the discriminatory view that underlies Darwin's view of superiority and inferiority that deems single-celled organisms as lower, and more complicated life forms as higher. It would be more appropriate to say we are all one continuous life-form.
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#17. The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.
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#18. We can never know the answers to great spiritual questions, but it's all right not to understand. We have been born and are living on the earth to face directly the reality of living.
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#19. Food and medicine are not two different things: the are the front and back of one body.
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#20. My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.
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#21. 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.
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#22. Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament. Fast rather than slow, more rather than less - this flashy "development" is linked directly to society's impending collapse.
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#23. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
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#24. The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.
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#25. 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.
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#26. The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.
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#27. 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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#29. The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.
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#30. We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about
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#31. 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.
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#32. If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.
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#33. Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.
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#34. 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.
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#35. There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything
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#36. Nature does not change, although the way of viewing nature invariably changes from age to age.
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#37. Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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!
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#40. Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.
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#41. But intending to understand ten things, you actually do not understand even one. If you know a hundred flowers you do not "know" a single one.
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#42. 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.
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#44. I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.
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#45. If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.
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#46. Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution.
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#47. Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community ...
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.
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#52. Of course, I have made mistakes ... just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!
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#53. Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.
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#54. I believe that if one fathoms deeply one's own neighborhood and the everyday world in which he lives, the greatest of worlds will be revealed.
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#55. At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have come to think that if they do not prepare food with elaborate seasonings, the meal will be tasteless. If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.
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