Source: http://www.onestrawrevolution.net/One_Straw_Revolution/One-Straw_Revolution.html
"It goes without saying that soil improvement is the fundamental concern of orchard management. If you use chemical fertilizer the trees do grow larger, but year by year the soil becomes depleted. Chemical fertilizer drains the earth of its vitality. If it is used even for one generation the soil suffers considerably."
~Masanobu Fukuoka
The One-Straw Revolution - 1978
Chapter 2
Subsection: Orchard Earth.
Page 61
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