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As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book 'is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. Fukuoka practices natural farming, which means being cooperative with nature instead of trying to pretend that we humans know more and can do better. He tries to create a system that nature's mechanism does its best.
No more pesticide, herbicide, not even pruning, weeding, etc. He simply finds and some scientif It's hard to rate a book like this. He simply finds and some scientific research agrees that nature can do better. Let the weeds grow, let the seeds sprout on their own, let the suitable ecosystem do its work and things turn out to be magnificent. I love the idea, and the evidence. After all, the earth has been alive for millions of years and the mechanism of living things must be the most efficient, the most powerful one among all.
It is the one that survives. But what does it mean to be "natural. The difference is that instead of engineering artificial mechanisms and environments, the author only tries to co-operate with the nature. It's a minimal type of intervention that involves rearranging, reordering the most successful pieces of nature and let it be. I wouldn't call it completely "natural. So that's where I disagree with the author.
I do not disagree with his criticism of the way research is done in the scientific world. Yet I would say his "natural farming" is very much a science itself. Or perhaps it is an arts. Either way, it involves intellectual thoughts, a lot of personal attachment, beliefs, love. It is a science of a different standard, one that is difficult to be accepted by the conventional society, but a good one indeed.
In denying all the achievements of sciences, is he denying his own work? Well, ok, my definition of science is slightly different from his. The book is also a great deal about philosophy, about the way of life, about living. It reiterates some ideas in Zen Buddhism, even though the author does not necessarily practice Zen.
My trouble with Fukuoka's ideas is his imagination of "the primitive," of the "old" or "original" way of farming.
Does that beautiful, romantic way of living and farming ever exist? Does it exist only for a few elites and a few enlightened ones? The world is full of problems. It has always been and it will always be.
Fukuoka wants to rid the world of those problems. He proposes that we go "back" to the nature if that past ever exists. He dreams of an earth pure and harmonious. I'm skeptical. In some ways, I even enjoy this sad world. I enjoy observing this crazy, greedy, foolish, but also kind, noble world.
I enjoy it even if it comes to an end. Because it's alright. Human is a part of nature too. The way we are exploiting, destroying it is very much a natural process. It could end very badly indeed. But well, nature doesn't have to be always successful. There is no definition of success or failure in nature.
It just is. Feb 06, Siddhartha rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Slow food enthusiasts, Organic farmers and buyers, Eco conscious consumers. Shelves: owned , not-so-light-reading. Every once in a while, we chance upon a book that we finish it in one sitting, and wonder why we did not find it earlier. Every once in a while, we chance upon a book that makes us think "Exactly how does any one else not think like this?
A book that introduces a new paradigm.. The new paradigm may or may not be one with which we are comfortable. This outstanding book by Masanobu Fukuoka is one such. And the new paradigm it introduced to me is both comfortable Every once in a while, we chance upon a book that we finish it in one sitting, and wonder why we did not find it earlier. And the new paradigm it introduced to me is both comfortable and fills me with hope.
It's even more remarkable Fukuoka did what he did in Japan, of all places, that in the sense that the Japanese are the sort of people who are likely to use the most modern methods anywhere possible, and are the sort who obsess with order and conformity! They even produced cuboid shaped water melons! Fukuoka has a message for them:. Consider this: Agriculture is thousands of years old. Diverting Riverine and Canal water for Agriculture is relatively recent phenomena.
Now we are already experiencing irrigational challenges across the world in general and South Asia in particular. How are we going to manage?
Fukuoka answers this question. But before that, he asks that question on our behalf. And many other questions. And he answers them. Whether his exact methods are practicable elsewhere is obviously open for debate, but the direction he shows is one we, the human race, cannot afford to ignore.
A must read from me. Dec 30, Elizabeth rated it it was amazing. We make things too complicated. We're not as smart as we think we are. The earth pays for our arrogance. Eat well. Simple, whole foods. Don't work too much or you won't have time to write a haiku.
Starting from the thesis that life has no meaning, Mr. Fukuoka explains how this realization led him to his "do-nothing" farming method.
His views of the Westernization of agriculture in Post WWII Japan lead to musings on how the Japanese have become removed not only from their food source, but also the We make things too complicated. His views of the Westernization of agriculture in Post WWII Japan lead to musings on how the Japanese have become removed not only from their food source, but also their culture - when you work so hard, you have no time to compose poetry.
The book is inspiring me to try some of his do nothing methods - no digging or planting, just broadcasting seeds and no weeding, abundant use of mulch. An absolutely fantastic text on the relationship between nature and man. Aug 01, Justin rated it it was amazing Shelves: environment. This is the first book that I have ever started rereading immediately upon completion to see what I had missed the first time.
After the second reading it easily burst into my all time top 10 favorite books list. I am a firm believer that understanding and obeying nature are essential steps towards fulfillment on both individual and social levels, and this book gives expression to that belief better than any I have ever read.
Fukuoka's essential question that took him 30 years to answer is " This is the first book that I have ever started rereading immediately upon completion to see what I had missed the first time.
Fukuoka's essential question that took him 30 years to answer is "What is the natural pattern? While there are parts of the book that go into details of agriculture, most of the book is an analogy for whatever medium you work through to answer the big question. I am a teacher and much of the wisdom in this book applies to my field. For example, Mr. Fukuoka states that most farmers try to improve their craft by adding things and he felt that was a fundamental mistake: "My way was opposite.
I was aiming at a pleasant, natural way of farming which results in making the work easier instead of harder. How about not doing that? I ultimately reached the conclusion that there was no need to plow, no need to apply fertilizer, no need to make compost, no need to use insecticide.
When you get right down to it, there are few agricultural practices that are really necessary. It sees students as capable, intelligent people who enjoy learning and only need powerful experiences and support in their reflection process to learn to do what they propose.
In other words, learning is natural to people and this approach lets that natural process take place, just as Mr. Fukuoka's farming is natural to the earth and thus produces great yields. Fukuoka rails against chemical fertilizers and insecticides as "the most inept way to deal with problems such as these, and will only lead to greater problems in the future.
This leads to low self esteem and creates dependence on a teacher for further learning, leaving them stunted when such a teacher is not around. Of course, you don't have to take this entire book as an analogy to enjoy it. His understanding of nutrition is truly enlightening.
For example, many people feel intuitively that eating organically grown foods is better for us and the planet without necessarily understanding why. In a real sense, food is medicine, and "Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine. When food loses meaning, we become alienated from nature, the root cause of most of society's current evils. The more out of balance one's body becomes, the more one comes to desire unnatural foods. This situation is dangerous to health.
Its beauty lies in its simplicity and its coherency with nutrition, with wisdom that understands the ebb and flow of nature within and around our bodies. Fukuoka is truly a man who walks his talk, and his talk is brilliant. In Charles Mann's dichotomy , Mr Fukuoka is a prophet, not a wizard - though a prophet of comfort. He preaches a return to traditional ways, and rejects agricultural innovation. In his view - peppered with Zen-like comments on life and peace of mind - we cannot "cheat" nature forever.
Each innovation we find - to wring more out of the soil, kill insects and disease, and provide more and a wider range of produce throughout the year - will inevitably throw up externalities, and though we may fix th In Charles Mann's dichotomy , Mr Fukuoka is a prophet, not a wizard - though a prophet of comfort.
Each innovation we find - to wring more out of the soil, kill insects and disease, and provide more and a wider range of produce throughout the year - will inevitably throw up externalities, and though we may fix them we are degrading the ecosystem and our own diets. He advocates "do nothing" farming: no tilling, no sowing, no artificial fertilizer, no herbicides, no pesticides; although this does not mean no work.
To some extent this calls for change in diet more local, indigenous [to Japan] crops such as rice over wheat, less meat , but to some extent it also means lower yields, and here is where I become sceptical: is this applicable in parts of the world where reduced yield doesn't mean giving up luxuries, but actual starvation?
Even Wendell Berry, America's agrarian prophet of doom, admits in his introduction to this NYRB edition that knowledgeable readers will be aware that Mr. Fukuoka's techniques will not be directly applicable to most American farms. But the problems discussed here and others - nitrogen runoff, soil depletion, the insect apocalypse - aren't going away.
At some point we, or our children, will have to build a more sustainable relationship with the soil. Nov 12, Lukas Rupp rated it it was amazing. This is a book about rice, winter grain, and fruit tree farming in Japan and a meditation on the limits of human knowledge and language. Or, it is more accurate to say that it is a story about the limits of human knowledge and language, told through the lens of rice, winter grain, and fruit tree farming in Japan.
I have never grown rice or winter grains, and I probably never will. Yet, this book was absolutely captivating and exciting. These thirty years have taught me that farmers would have been better off doing almost nothing at all. My initial counter-example was playing Go. Then I remember that the primary problem of weak Go players is playing unnecessary stones, of trying to do too much rather than playing natural or fundamental moves. Le Garcon Dupont writes: "The refusal to offer solutions, to insist that such must be imposed at a wholly different and higher organisational level is the only radical solution we have to offer.
People take no notice if you tell them things could be otherwise; if you reveal to them your desire to change things: it instantly turns off a switch in their head.
However, if you tell them there is no hope, if you tell them that they can achieve nothing… this provokes their intellectual antibodies, and they start thinking about what they can do. Fukuoka is aware of the contradictions inherent to writing and advocating doing nothing, and he is aware of the limits of communicating his ideas. He knows that his message cannot be to the co-op it is financed by the fertilizer industry and etcetera , but in knowing this — and being unattached to the outcome of his intervention — he actually leaves open some space for communicating.
How can I say that and then go on chattering like this? If I push myself to write something, the only thing to write is that writing is useless. It is very perplexing. It leaves me cautiously optimistic about, at least, my own ability to one day grow vegetables in my backyard by learning how not to do this or that.
Jun 22, Sathya Srinivasan rated it really liked it. This is modern agriculture and it only results in making the farmer busier. My way was opposite. I ultimately reached the conclusion that "The usual way to go about developing a method is to ask, "How about trying this? The reason that man's improved techniques seem to be necessary is that the natural balance has been so badly upset beforehand by those same techniques, that the land has become dependent on them.
This line of reasoning not only applies to agriculture, but to other aspects of human society as well. Doctors and medicine become necessary when people create a sickly environment. Formal schooling has no intrinsic value, but becomes necessary when humanity creates a condition in which one must become "educated" to get along.
Human beings with their tampering do something wrong, leave the damage unrepaired, and when the adverse results accumulate, work with all their might to correct them. When the corrective actions appear to be successful, they come to view these measures as successful accomplishments. People do this over and over again. It is as if a fool were to stomp on and break the tiles of his roof.
Then when it starts to rain and the ceiling begins to rot away, he hastily climbs up to mend the damage, rejoicing in the end that he has accomplished a miraculous solution. Oct 20, Thai Son rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , biographical , spiritual.
Superbly written book. Masanobu Fukuoka lived his tale, and these are the insights from a lifetime of cocreating with life and nature's splendor. I think this will be one of those rare books which,I can say for certain, have defined my course in life. I read to the middle of it in a nice mid-day, and somehow my mind sort of stop searching for the information, and my whole being sort of just shivered.
I had a rumination. Or something like that. Many will find similar sentiments. Many in m Superbly written book. Many in my country Vietnam did, and we are building our own movement across the rural lands here.
This book delivers a powerful message about permaculture, the sense and meaning of it all. Fukuoka so detested in his book: the scientific method. Or rather, the blind disconnectedness that science dictated in how the scientist may build her conception of the world. Aug 25, Sara J. My first NYRB. Suffice to say I found this, his first book, just as interesting as that one - I think it is a bit more elaborate as well.
The overall concept, philosophy and mindset though is quite fascinating and quite what I would one day like to have. Self sustainable living ftw. Then again, even Mssr. Fukuoka took yeeeeeeaaaaaarss to get his technique down pat - and even that was still subject to the whims and fancies of le Mother Nature - but his mindset is rather There are a slew of quotable passages as well! I will try to dig some up later on. Got a bit carried away didn't I?
May 22, Dawn rated it it was amazing. I read this book years ago when someone gave me a copy with instructions to give it to another person who would appreciate it when the time came. Appare I read this book years ago when someone gave me a copy with instructions to give it to another person who would appreciate it when the time came. Apparently, the book is back in print and I would encourage you to find a copy and read it.
Sep 16, Vaidya rated it it was amazing Shelves: non-fiction. There's something basic about this book; you realise that some way into it - Fukuoka doesn't say anything new at all. Most of what he talks about is common sense. It's just a sad fact that we've moved so far away from that. If all these grains that we now farm have grown over the years and been part of us for so many millennia, why do we suddenly need to use so many fertilisers? Of course, the argument is one of plenty, to feed the teeming billions.
But that still does not seem to answer his que There's something basic about this book; you realise that some way into it - Fukuoka doesn't say anything new at all. But that still does not seem to answer his question. There is also the matter of what we consume, after all on an average there is only that much a person can eat. I remember growing up in the 80s and noting how certain vegetables and fruits were available only in certain seasons. Of course, some are like the Mango, still never available outside its early monsoon.
Despite all those silly Har-mausam aam ads! There were vegetables that you got seasonally, some in summer, some in winter.
Apples were too expensive anytime other than winters and you learnt not to ask for them in summer. Now they are available all the time, and expensive in every season too. This book is mostly about the growing of food and thus is about almost everything. How we consume food will affect what we grow. Change in current attitudes where certain grains are considered more "in" than others, and in places where they've never been grown, has affected what gets grown in places.
Even back in the 80s Ragi finger millet was grown and consumed in Karnataka. More irrigation and demand for sugar has meant that more farmers have jumped on to the sugarcane bandwagon - a crop that has pretty much zero nutritional value and is mostly bought by soda and processed food industries.
A lot of people farming for profit has meant that if a crop fails or if the buying rate plumments which it has, thanks to WTO and India having to import cheaper Brazilian sugar , whatever sugar is left cannot be consumed as food by the farmer. Fukuoka stands strictly against industrial farming - holding forth that every family should farm for its own food and the surplus should be sold.
His arguments are that more urbanisation has moved us away from nature and has destroyed our connect with nature and is the root cause of most ills like pollution, natural resource depletion, etc. The most surprising thing is that the book was written in and is still, in fact more, relevant now. We've moved pretty much in the path which he says "don't" and we've ended up where we are now, which also he says. Fertility depletion, fishing ecosystems depletion are all facts now. Growing usage of meat has meant more greenhouse emissions and as he says, that's a lot of food being given to animals - it just isn't efficient.
And of course industrial faming of animals has its own issues - both the quality of food and the ethicality of it. Note to people who'll start screaming on the above: He asks people to eat locally, so locally if your ecosystem has more fish, as his does, consume more fish. Recent research on the Okinawa diet show almost no usage of red meat. Of course, his point isn't a one size fits all approach, but more of an "eat what grows naturally where you live" approach. And also eat what grows naturally at that time.
As for red meat, honestly guys, I don't understand people eating meat every day! Keep it a once or twice a week thing and the world will be a better place! For Indians, remember the diet growing up. His arguments are less for "organic" farming, and more for natural farming - plants and trees have been programmed in certain ways over millennia, why tinker with them?
Provide them the basics and let things take care of themselves. This goes into not tilling the land, but scattering the seeds, not having standing water when growing rice, but let it flow once or twice. And avoiding mono-cropping. Use crops that help each other grow instead of the same crop which might also pass on diseases to the next generation.
A lot of what he advocates is what is now known as agroecology, so its not like he is saying something no one is talking about anymore. In many ways, this book is a lot about Zen, and he does talk a lot on Zen and Tao Buddhism and the central idea of farming is of Wuwei.
As for rice, it has had its group of detractors and as a rice grower Fukuoka too has his complaints - that white rice is bad, and less processed brown rice is the better one. Most South Indians would like to take note. View 1 comment. Feb 27, Phalgun rated it really liked it. A hugely influential book within India in the field of Organic Farming, The One Straw Revolution two decades after its publication perseveres in being agriculturally revelatory at the very least to an amateur , albeit in a fluctuatingly spiritual manner.
Those parts can be safely skipped if one is o A hugely influential book within India in the field of Organic Farming, The One Straw Revolution two decades after its publication perseveres in being agriculturally revelatory at the very least to an amateur , albeit in a fluctuatingly spiritual manner.
Fukuoka is also pointedly critical of the topical and modern notion of a small agricultural sector of high nominal productivity, a neoliberal idea of the ever reducing agricultural population with exponentially enlarging tracts of land producing a surplus of food, with the previous occupants of the land being relegated to the much favored service sector.
Every one of his teachings has an aspect to it which explores the inimical nature of the widespread adoption of the former policy. Overall, it is a fine book on a nature-centric alternative agricultural philosophy with many pages judiciously deployed to criticize the methods of the present. Jun 16, Kalvin rated it it was amazing. Dec 26, Mike rated it liked it Shelves: farming.
It's beautiful. And it's quite clear in hindsight that his work helped ignite the good food movement throughout the world. So huzzah to him! Fukuoka's book, though, left me wanting.
I couldn't get over the constant references to the concept of "nature" or "natural" made throughout. In agriculture, "natural" as a label confounds me.
No agricultural products are produced naturally. That would be silly. The whole idea of agriculture is to create surplus, and farmers have infinite ways of doing so. Fukuoka spreads straw, plants seed, maintains constant ground cover, builds fertility, etc Or at least all those things would happen, but the result would not be an acre of grain every fall and an acre of barley every spring -- never ever. Big conventional grain farmers plow land and use herbicide to reduce competition and use fertilizer to add the nutrients necessary for plant life.
They are also trying to mimic nature, though in a way that uses up more natural resources and less mimics what would happen without human influence.
No one would confuse Fukuoka's practices with those of conventional grain farmers, but that doesn't make his practices natural.
Or maybe anything and everything us human farmers do is natural -- we are natural beings, after all. Why try to separate people from the animals we are? In any event, I thought Fukuoka's manifesto suffered from its attempt to convey itself as the "natural" way of farming, when really it's just a smarter and better way.
No shame in that!! Jul 09, Mina Villalobos rated it really liked it Shelves: world-improvement , gardening. Definitely a very interesting and thought provoking read, I found myself feeling both surprised and saddened that this was written almost 40 years ago and we're still dealing with the same kind of problems, only made worse. This is a philosophy book more than it is a gardening book, but it is because of the philosophy and the way of life it promotes that you could ever think of make the type of cultivation it proposes happen.
Perhaps the measures that we would need to take to change our way of l Definitely a very interesting and thought provoking read, I found myself feeling both surprised and saddened that this was written almost 40 years ago and we're still dealing with the same kind of problems, only made worse. Perhaps the measures that we would need to take to change our way of life would be too extreme. But if we can begin to change, to give up all this unnecessary desires and step out of the rat race, maybe we can be happier.
Aug 23, Emma Whyte rated it liked it Shelves: non-fiction , biography. It merges discussions on farming practices with a more general philosophy on the human condition and our relationship to nature.
Whilst this edition was written in , many of his sentiments ring true today. Sep 27, Ramona Gherghe rated it it was amazing Shelves: engleza , read Nov 03, Rinchen rated it it was amazing.
This is a book that is a lot about food, food chains and agriculture, but more about how we live on the earth and the nature of knowledge. It owes much to Buddhism, here is the moment of Masanobu Fukuoka's initial enlightenment: One night as I wandered, I collapsed in exhaustion on a hill overlooking the harbor, finally dozing against the trunk of a large tree.
I lay there, neither asleep nor awake, until dawn. I can still remember that it was the morning of the 15th of May. In a daze I watched t This is a book that is a lot about food, food chains and agriculture, but more about how we live on the earth and the nature of knowledge. In a daze I watched the harbor grow light, seeing the sunrise and yet somehow not seeing it. As the breeze blew up from below the bluff, the morning mist suddenly disappeared. Just at that moment a night heron appeared, gave a sharp cry, and flew away into the distance.
I could hear the flapping of its wings. In an instant all my doubts and the gloomy mist of mu confusion vanished. Everything I had held in firm conviction, everything upon which I had ordinarily relied was swept away with the wind.
I felt that I understood one thing. Without my thinking about them, words came from my mouth: "In this world there is nothing at all The thing you reach when you realise how insufficient intellectual knowledge is, and struggle to see everything for what it, learn again. This moment so prized in so many cultures apart from the western, European one -- and even then it is well know to some of the meditative strands of Christianity. He left home to further this insight, share it. At one stop, I saw a small sign which read, "Utopia.
I remember reading about this book many years ago when I was in LA, trying to get it, not being able to afford it given its rarity. It's affordable now, and quite awesome. Over thirty years he has worked immensely hard to perfect a system that works with nature to grow as much food as any other farm with immensely less effort. I fucking love that. You still work dann hard because it's a farm of course, but the goal is always to work less, to have leisure, to enjoy life and live well and to leave the earth you farm better than when you started.
Masanobu Fukuoka notes that in the traditional farming year, the New Year's holiday was three months long though did women ever experience such a thing I wonder? He talks about the village shrine, and the many faded haiku villagers had composed and offered. Because they had some leisure. Over time and 'improvements' the holiday became two months, and then two days. Poetry is no longer written.
Modernised agriculture has always taken a different route, an arrogant route that demands ever longer hours of work for those who can still make a living through farming, and in solving one problem caused a cascading set of others. And now? The reason that man's improved techniques seem to be necessary is that the natural balance has been so badly upset beforehand by those same techniques that the land has become dependent on them.
Modern agricultural methods of mass production, mechanization, monoculture and chemicals must be among the best examples: The path I have followed, this natural way of farming But all I have been doing During the past few years the number of people interested in natural farming has grown considerably.
It seems that the limit of scientific development has even reached, misgivings have begun to be felt, and the time for reappraisal has arrived. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should create. But scientific truth can never reach absolute truth, and philosophies, after all, are nothing more than interpretations of the world. Nature as grasped by scientific knowledge is a nature which has been destroyed; it is a ghost possessing a skeleton, but no soul.
Nature as grasped by philosophical knowledge is a theory created out of human speculation, a ghost with a soul, but no structure. An object seen in isolation from the whole is not the real thing. The difference in the results of respecting, observing and working with nature, and not: Make your way carefully through these fields.
No chemical fertilizer or prepared compost No weeding by tillage or herbicides No dependence on chemicals A rhythm of growing and planting that allows desired crops to establish themselves without need for weeding, grown amongst cycles of clover or other such plants grown to keep down weeds and the use of the straw after the harvest to build the soil and protect the new crop.
Companion planting. Allowing monsoon rains to sit for just over a week to kill unwanted weeds, weaken the clover, strengthen the rice. The use of hardy plants without fertilizer other than compost or ducks loose and nibbling the fields to grow strong and compact and thus resistant to pests. Allowing the natural ecosystem to flourish that ensures where pests exist their predators do also. Careful attention to weather and soil and plants native to the site.
Trial and error. Instead we kill the earth and everything in it dead, and pour chemicals into it. We eat them on our food, lacking in flavour and vitality, often dyed and waxed and grown only for perfection of form. Its medicinal power is completely lost.
The chemicals run off into our waterways and oceans causing blooms of algea, doing god knows what else. Compare these two ways and you wonder what the fuck we were thinking.
Not that Masanobu Fukuoka's system to grow food with little effort has come easily -- like all good things it has taken a long time: It involves little more than broadcasting seed and spreading straw, but it has taken me over thirty years to reach this simplicity. He describes going to conferences and speaking about it and always and immediately being shut down - 'To do away with machinery and chemicals would bring about a complete change in the economic and social structures.
To the extent that the consciousness of everyone is not fundamentally transformed, pollution will not cease. My favourite was: 'they trapped themselves in the endless hell of the intellect. All too familiar, and funny for that reason. The other two are just true and deep: If we do have a food crisis it will not be caused by the insufficiency of nature's productive power, but by the extravagance of human desire.
By applying this wisdom, people have become the only animals capable of nuclear war. So I will end with an offhand report of a true wonder: In southern Shikoku there was a kind of chicken that would eat worms and insects on the vegetables without scratching the roots or damaging the plants. Apr 28, D rated it it was amazing.
Splendid outline of natural farming from a Japanese perspective with generalizable tips for the world. The book's motto is ' Eat, play, sleep. William Blake: He who binds to himself a joy Doth the winged life destroy, But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. Fukuoka: When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the effort to possess them, the essence of natural farmi Splendid outline of natural farming from a Japanese perspective with generalizable tips for the world.
Fukuoka: When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the effort to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. Fukuoka speaks of agriculture as a way : 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.
An agriculture that is whole nourishes the whole person, body and soul. We do not live by bread alone. Doctors should first determine at the fundamental level what it is that human beings depend on for life. Nature is everywhere in perpetual motion ; conditions are never exactly the same in any two years. So it appears that government agencies have no intention of stopping pollution.
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