I just read Fukuoka’s last publication just printed in English, Sowing Seeds in the Desert. I want to thank good friend Larry Korn for all his efforts editing this penetrating masterpiece. Here are some quotes from the master:
“I look forward to the day when there is no need for sacred scriptures or sutras. The dragonfly will be the messiah.”
“The natural world did not become a desert on its own. Both in the past and in the present, human beings, with their ‘superior knowledge’, have been the ringleader in turning the earth and the human heart into wastelands. If we eliminate the fundamental cause of this destruction – people’s knowledge and actions – nature will surely come to life again. I am not proposing to do away with human beings, but rather to change the politics and practices of our authority.”
“This tragic dance of the money-sucking octopus is performed on the backs of the common people and the farmers. In the end, the octopus, with its legs waving wildly in every direction, is nothing more than the human comedy.”