A Review of Masanobu Fukuoka’s Sowing Seeds in the Desert
...t makes a lot of sense. Fukuoka says that these desertified areas lack the seeds needed to recover on their own. Sowing Seeds in the Desert is a book steeped in a passionate Buddhism. The real desert is in the human heart. It’s our hearts that Fukuoka is trying to heal and by so doing, bring about that second Genesis. When people try to grow crops using human knowledge, they will never be anything more than farmers. If they can look at things with...