Tao Te Ching

“The land may appear beautiful on the surface, but because the earth is hard and depleted, farmers have no alternative other than to rely on chemical fertilizers. In fact, the energy poured into the land is sometimes greater than the energy recovered in the crops... American farmers must farm 100--200 times the acreage of Japanese farmers just to make ends meet.”

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