“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”

— Masanobu Fukuoka, book The One-Straw Revolution

Source: The One-Straw Revolution (1975), Chapter 3, p. 119

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Japanese farmer and philosopher 1913–2007

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