The Road Back to Nature: Regaining the Paradise Lost

Preface to English Edition ......Page 12
Preface to Japanese Edition ......Page 16
Introduction: Man Doesn\'t Live by Bread Alone ......Page 20
All One Has to Do is to Live ......Page 24
1. America-Land of Plenty ......Page 28
Up Above the Clouds ......Page 30
The Spaniards Brought Bad Grasses ......Page 34
The Rain Falls from Below ......Page 37
Deficit Farming ......Page 38
Agriculture Run Amok ......Page 41
America\'s Pine Trees Are Dying Too ......Page 43
America Is Drying Up ......Page 44
The East Coast Forests ......Page 46
The Bogus Nature ......Page 47
Can American Agriculture Be Revived ......Page 50
The Machine Culture Is Doomed ......Page 55
Food as a Strategic Weapon ......Page 57
Natural Diet Takes Hold in the U.S ......Page 62
A Change Has Come Over Westerners ......Page 67
The Specter of Food Scarcity ......Page 71
2. Europe As I Saw It ......Page 74
The Sound of My Footsteps ......Page 76
The Roots of Clothing ......Page 81
Farming for the Kings and Clergy ......Page 85
First Leg: Switzerland ......Page 87
Summer Camp at Giannozzo\'s ......Page 90
Milan Rice ......Page 94
On to Austria ......Page 96
Lecturing in Vienna ......Page 98
North to Holland ......Page 102
The Nelissen Farm ......Page 104
The Old Man and the Windmill ......Page 109
The European Culture of Food ......Page 112
Flowers and Beauty ......Page 116
Churches and God ......Page 119
The International Nature University ......Page 122
The Paris Peace March ......Page 124
Weapons. . . for Defense ......Page 126
Reflections on the Japanese ......Page 129
A Message for Peace ......Page 132
3. Food and the Ecosystem ......Page 142
The Japanese Diet Takes a Turn for the Worse ......Page 144
Too Few Vegetables in the West ......Page 145
Japanese Diet and Cooking Are Disappearing ......Page 148
Diet and Thought ......Page 150
America\'s Food Strategy ......Page 153
Rice Seed as a Weapon ......Page 154
Japan U.S. Vie in Development of the High- Yielding Rice Seed ......Page 155
Insects Also Create New Varieties of Rice ......Page 164
Reviving Ancestral Strains ......Page 165
Problems with Darwin\'s Theory of Evolution ......Page 167
Scientists Abuse Their Authority ......Page 171
Pine Blight: A Case Study of Nature under Attack ......Page 174
Pine Rot: Portent of Desertification ......Page 175
Artificial Cultivation of the Matsutake ......Page 178
Keeping the Medfly Out of Japan ......Page 182
Fruit Fly Maggots Discovered in Shikoku ......Page 186
Japan-A Country Without Fruit Flies ......Page 189
4. Natural Farming: A Personal Testimony ......Page 200
The Principles and Practice of Natural Farming ......Page 202
Is \"Do-Nothing\" Farming Possible ......Page 203
The Paradoxes of Scientific Farming ......Page 206
Naturally Farmed Rice ......Page 208
The Pit of Knowledge ......Page 210
Ignorant Agriculture, Misguided Medicine ......Page 212
Is Natural Farming Catching On ......Page 215
My Method of Natural Farming ......Page 216
Nature as Teacher ......Page 221
Nature is Unknowable ......Page 224
Crossing Mountains and Valleys Gets You Nowhere ......Page 226
The Innocence of Children ......Page 227
Washing the Naked Body ......Page 232
The Natural Body ......Page 234
Some Are Returning to Nature ......Page 237
Why Doesn\'t Natural Farming Catch On in Japan ......Page 241
Changing Attitudes Toward Nature ......Page 247
Reviving the Soul of the Thousand Fields ......Page 249
Nature Farming and the Bushman\'s Way of Life ......Page 251
Touching the Great Spirit ......Page 255
Natural Farming Offers a New Future ......Page 257
Foreigners Are a Determined Lot ......Page 259
Utopia-Building ......Page 262
5. Nature, God, and Man ......Page 270
Do Not Name the Nameless God ......Page 272
Understanding That Goes Only Three-Quarters of the Way ......Page 274
There Is Only One God ......Page 276
Where Then Is God ......Page 278
God Is All Alone ......Page 281
God and Nature Are One ......Page 285
God, Nature, and Man as One ......Page 286
Learning about Nature Distances One from Nature ......Page 287
The Death of God ......Page 288
Finding the World of Nothing ......Page 296
Children, God, and Nature ......Page 298
Nature Creates God ......Page 301
A Humanity Forsaken by God ......Page 302
Misconceptions over Space and Time ......Page 305
The Last Road Left for Humanity ......Page 307
A Farmer\'s Ode ......Page 311
6. Seeding a Real Green Revolution ......Page 314
We Must Stop the Ad advance of the Deserts ......Page 316
Everything Begins by Sowing Seed ......Page 322
Can Natural Farming Stop the Deserts ......Page 324
What Will Grow in the Desert ......Page 327
Organic Farming and Ecology Are Self-Defeating ......Page 329
Forty Days in Africa ......Page 332
Why the Tragedy in Africa ......Page 339
America Revisited ......Page 342
American Agriculture Seven Years Later ......Page 343
The Outdoor Food Markets ......Page 346
The Growing Popularity of Japanese Cuisine ......Page 349
Natural Home Gardens ......Page 350
A Natural Garden in the Backyard ......Page 353
What is This \"Lawn Culture ......Page 355
Lundberg\'s Natural Rice ......Page 356
Sowing Seed in the Desert ......Page 359
Making the Change from Organic to Natural Farming ......Page 361
Three Don Quixote\'s ......Page 366
A Statement ......Page 372
Reclaiming the Desert at the Zen Center ......Page 374