Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine” – pg.

“Food and medicine are the front and back of one body.

“To break experience in half and call one side physical and other spiritual is narrowing and confusing.” – pg.

These vegetables are a watery chemical concoction of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash, with a little help from seed.

“If you think commercial vegetables are nature’s own, you are in for a big surprise.

“The more elaborate the countermeasures, the more complicated the problems become” – pg.In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.” – pg. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. People think the bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful it is. Other animals make their livings by living. “Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think this is the most ridiculous thing in the world.Instead, I’ll leave you with ten foundational quotes to whet your palette. It is a must-read and would be an injustice to try to summarize it here. The way of living aligns closely with freeganism. The book frames global problems of overdevelopment, poor health, pollution, and more in regards to our relationship with nature and living. One-Straw is not a manual for how to farm most efficiently. Natural farming is “Simply as possible within and in cooperation with the natural environment, rather than the modern approach of applying increasingly complex techniques to remake nature for the benefit of human beings”. Recently it was The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka, a Japanese farmer who practiced Natural Farming, Once in a blue moon, I read a life-changing book.

The one straw revolution book