Tao Te Ching

“water—often piped in from hundreds of miles away—is sprayed over the fields with sprinklers. When it evaporates, it draws salt up from within the soil and this continuous deposition of salt in the topsoil eventually turns the irrigated land into a salt field.”

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