Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility

Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

It has been recognized since the dawn of microbiology that the soil is inhabited by a living microscopic population which is responsible for the numerous reactions that take place in the soil and that affect the life and economy of man in many ways.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

We have to stop treating soil like dirt.

Micronutrient deficiency in the soil results in micronutrient malnutrition in people, since crops grown on such soils tend to be deficient in the nutrients needed to fight hidden hunger.

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

All soils are not fertile.

Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.

The good thing about 'Weeds' now is, I get to play some dramatic parts in that as well.

I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by the cows. Here they find manure and an open space for the first year at least, when they are not choked by grass or weeds. In this way, evidently, many of these clumps of barberries are commenced.

The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

Don't water your weeds.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.