Tao Te Ching
One Straw Revolution
The "Bible" and inspiration for natural farming, no-till gardening, and the appreciation of nature as opposed to the modern world's mechanistic conquering of it. And far beyond just a critique of materialistic modern society, this book offers a clear road map to healing both our land, our sick societies, and the meaningless struggles of so many in our rapidly changing, consumeristic, hypnotized world. Interspersed with numerous and practical farming and gardening techniques, Fukuoka's deep sanity and wisdom demonstrates and inspires more natural lifestyles full of meaningfulness and sacred outlook.
Themes
Quotes from One Straw Revolution
“A problem cannot be solved by people who are concerned with only one or another of its parts.”
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“A scientific testing method that takes all relevant factors into account is an impossibility... each researcher seeing just one part of the infinite array of natural factors... Before researchers become researchers, they should become philosophers.”
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“Doctors take care of sick people; healthy people are cared for by nature... The prime consideration is for a person to develop the sensitivity to allow the body to choose food by itself.”
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“I felt that I understood nothing... In an instant all my doubts and the gloomy mist of my confusion vanished. Everything I had held in firm conviction, everything upon which I had ordinarily relied was swept away with the wind.”
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“I think that Gandhi's way, a methodless method, acting with a non-winning, non-opposing state of mind, is akin to natural farming.”
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“if the individual temporarily abandons human will and so allows himself to be guided by nature, nature responds by providing everything.”
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“If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.”
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50. Claws and Swords
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“Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.”
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68. Joining Heaven & Earth
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“Lao Tzu spoke of non-active nature, and I think that if he were a farmer he would certainly practice natural farming.”
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“My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.”
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54. Planting Well
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“Nature as grasped by scientific knowledge is a nature which has been destroyed, it is a ghost possessing a skeleton, but no soul.”
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“People complacently view the world as a place where 'progress' grows out of turmoil and confusion. But purposeless and destructive development invites confusion of thought, invites nothing less than the degeneration and collapse of humankind.”
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“Sickness comes when people draw apart from nature. The severity of the disease is directly proportional to the degree of separation.”
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“Some weeding, composting or pruning may be necessary at first, but these measures should be gradually reduced each year.”
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“The face of nature is unknowable. Trying to capture the unknowable in theories and formalized doctrines is like trying to catch the wind in a butterfly net.”
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“The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture… has the mind and heart of a child. One must simply know nature . . . real nature, not the one we think we know!”
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55. Forever Young
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“The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.”
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59. The Gardening of Spirit
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“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
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52. Cultivating the Changeless
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“there is no need to plow, no need to apply fertilizer, no need to make compost, no need to use insecticide... there are few agricultural practices that are really necessary.”
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60. Less is More
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“There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything more”
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9. Know When to Stop
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“There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything.”
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2. The Wordless Teachings
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“To be here, caring for a small field, in full possession of the freedom and plentitude of each day, every day—this must have been the original way of agriculture.”
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“Ultimately, it is not the growing technique which is the most important factor, but rather the state of mind of the farmer.”
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“When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the effort to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized.”
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“young people—when they think they are beginning to understand nature—they can be sure that they are on the wrong track.”
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56. One with the Dust
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