Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes

We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

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

I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better.

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.

If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution.

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

They banned DDT, not because it was necessarily bad, but because it was a great way to help population control. Banning DDT permits more human deaths from insect-born diseases, like malaria.

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

Some environmentalists demands are counter productive. Avoiding pesticides for example means farming more land less efficiently, which leads to higher prices, more hunger, more disease …, and less biodiversity.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

We have to devise ways to lower the cost of production and reduce the risks involved in agriculture such as pests, pathogens, and weeds.

By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending it carefully and with love, your world and everyone's else's world too, becomes a better place.

Organic farming and other earlier methods can be effective, provided they can help us improve soil health and plant health. Plant pesticides like neem and tobacco need to be promoted.

Training of farmers in integrated pest management is exceedingly important to protect them during the use of pesticides.