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Jenny Odell • On how to grow an idea
C’est ce qu’écrit le sage Masanobu Fukuoka dans son ouvrage La Révolution d’un seul brin de paille, que j’invite instamment chacun à découvrir. C’est le livre le plus sage qu’il m’ait été donné de lire. Ce livre détaille l’expérience de Fukuoka dans l’agriculture naturelle au Japon de 1935 à 1978, période durant laquelle le Japon a introduit les pr
... See moreTom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être libre: Dans un monde absurde (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
Lao Tzu, the Taoist sage, says that a whole and decent life can be lived in a small village. Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen, spent nine years living in a cave without bustling about. To be worried about making money, expanding, developing, growing cash crops and shipping them out is not the way of the farmer. To be here, caring for a small field,
... See moreMasanobu Fukuoka • The One-Straw Revolution
“The best fertilizer is the footsteps of the farmer.”
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
can get some idea of the untapped potential of agriculture by reading F. H. King’s fascinating 1911 book, Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan, which explains how these regions sustained enormous populations for millennia on tiny amounts of land, without mechanization, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers.
... See moreCharles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
F. H. King in Farmers of Forty Centuries,