John Muir

“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”

Masanobu Fukuoka

Here is a video put together by Larry Korn, who lived and worked on Fukuoka’s farm in Japan in the seventies.

Quotes from Masanobu Fukuoka

Always loved this quote from Fukuoka: “If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.” And this one: “When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do. [...]

From Wendell Berry

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” — Wendell Berry

Observe Nature

“Observe Nature thoroughly rather than labor thoughtlessly.” – Masanobu Fukuoka ‘One Straw Revolution’