![]() ![]() In the ensuing decades, he utilized his powers of observation to learn from nature, refining a successful technique of “do-nothing” farming that defied many traditional and modern agricultural conventions. ![]() Recognizing the meaningless of life and living, he decided to walk away from his career, seeking instead answers to life’s big questions by cultivating a relationship with the living world on his family farm. SynopsisĪ plant pathologist by training, Fukuoka was confronted with his own mortality as a young man after surviving an acute bout of pneumonia. His little green book forced me to reexamine my own assumptions on how I came to know the world around me. At times radical, counterintuitive, and unsettling, The One Straw Revolution is a fascinating account of one man’s physical, spiritual, and philosophical journey through life. ![]() In The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Nature History of Four Meals, author Michael Pollan writes, “daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds” (p.10).I read The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka not long after becoming aware of permaculture, a branch of ecological engineering that draws inspiration from natural ecosystems. Humanity’s relationship with food is elemental our daily food choices serve as vivid reminders of our dependence upon the living world. ![]()
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