Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes

The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.

An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.

My government will make efforts to realize the farming potential of rain-fed and dry land areas by ensuring healthy participation by all stakeholders and convergence of various government sponsored programs.

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.

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.

I'd just rather not reap a crop every year.

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.

The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just barely - time is running out.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

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

Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.