"The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is."

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Source : Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.29, New York Review of Books

Masanobu Fukuoka

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“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”
“We declare, say , define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
“Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.”
“Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.”
“Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.”
“Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone.”
“I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.”
“Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer todayÂ—all the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is goingÂ—and write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success.”

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