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Eventually I decided to give my thoughts a form, to put them into practice, and so to determine whether my understanding was right or wrong.

— Masanobu Fukuoka The One-Straw Revolution (1975)

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

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Nature , or the body itself, serves as a capable guide. But this subtle guidance goes unheard by most people because of the clamor caused by desire and by the activity of the discriminating mind.

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My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.

Within one thing lie all things, but if all things are brought together not one thing can arise...A person can analyze and investigate a butterfly as far as he likes, but he cannot make a butterfly.

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