Tao Te Ching

“I asked whether the fields really need to be plowed and turned, whether the rice farmer really has to transplant his seedlings, whether it is necessary in fact to spread fertilizer on the fields... I learned that it isn't necessary to do anything... constant activity kills the microbes and drives the air from the earth... Man kills and destroys the soil.”

— Masanobu Fukuoka 福岡 正信 1913 – 2008 CE
from Road Back to Nature