Natural Ecstasy

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"People no longer tread over the bare earth. Their hands have drawn away from the grasses and flowers, they do not gaze up to the heavens, their ears are deaf to the songs of birds, their noses are rendered insensitive by exhaust fumes, and their tongues have forgotten the simple tastes of nature.  All five senses have grown isolated from nature.

 Man's true joy and delight was natural ecstasy. This exists only in nature and vanishes away from the earth. A human environment cannot exist apart from nature, and so agriculture must be made the foundation for living. The return of all people to the country to farm and create villages of true men is the road to the creation of ideal towns, ideal societies and ideal states."

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✍   Masanobu Fukuoka (Iyo,Japan, 2 February 1913 ~ Iyo, Japan, 16 August 2008).
◙ George Inness
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“La gente ya no pone los pies en la tierra. Sus manos se han alejado de hierbas y flores, no dirigen su mirada al Cielo, sus oídos están sordos al canto de los pájaros, su nariz se ha hecho insensible a causa de los humos de los tubos de escape y su lengua y su paladar han olvidado los sabores sencillos de la Naturaleza. Los cinco sentidos han crecido aislados del orden natural. La gente se ha alejado dos o tres escalones del hombre verdadero… Los verdaderos gozos y deleites del hombre eran un éxtasis natural. Esto sólo existe en la Naturaleza y se desvanece lejos de la Tierra. Un medio ambiente no puede existir fuera de la naturaleza, y así la agricultura deberá ser el fundamento para vivir. El retorno de toda la gente al campo para cultivar la tierra y crear aldeas de hombres verdaderos es el camino a seguir para la creación de ciudades ideales y naciones ideales.”

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