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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.

— 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.

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.

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