jessie chan

by Masanobu Fukuoka, who is a farmer and author of One Straw Revolution and many other books. He is one of the most extraordinary farmers of the 20th century and practises the unique do-nothing farming. An awesome thinker who has profound words on almost anything ... farming, education, modern science, life, etc. "I am a small person, staying on a small Japanese island called Shikoku. I am crazy...

“The usual way to go about developing a method is to ask, ‘How about trying this?’ or ‘How about trying that?’ bringing in a variety of techniques one upon the other. This is modern agriculture and it only results in making the farmer busier. 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...

“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that...