A Book That Changed My Life

September 10, 2023September 18, 2023 — Art of Living, Personal, Wisdom — 1 min read

Please allow me to recommend a revolutionary book that changed my attitude and relationship with the Earth. The book is: The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. It was first published in English (I believe) in 1978. This small book is about how Mr. Fukuoka received his epiphany about natural gardening and small acreage farming. What is Mr. Fukuoka’s advice to the farmer? Do nothing! Of course, there is more to it than that, but the author suggests a radically different approach to growing food than we currently hear from today’s “experts”. Below, I have listed an ISBN number for The One-Straw Revolution (for the copy I own) and a ten-minute video, featuring Masanobu Fukuoka and his story.

The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka ISBN: 978-1-59017-313-8

One reply on “A Book That Changed My Life”

Lopamudra Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay says:

September 11, 2023 at 7:02 am

Thank you for the recommendation. Will definitely give it a look

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Dale Tucker, a native of California, spent much of his early childhood in Palo Alto and Fresno before his family relocated to north-central Idaho in the late 1960s. Over the next four decades, he would graduate high school, raise a family, complete a bachelor’s degree in English, and explore several career paths, including music store manager, church minister, abstract painter, and museum curator. Dale Tucker was also a college instructor and taught English as a Second Language and Adult Basic Education courses at a community college in Clarkston, Washington. He also worked in a bakery, cooked for a restaurant, pulled coffee as a barista, exhibited his fine art paintings in galleries regionally, and, for several years, organized a popular coffeehouse lecture series known as Latte Talks. 2006 marked the re-focus of Tucker’s artistic energies as he transitioned from abstract painting to literary fiction. Themes of interest to Tucker, both in painting and in writing, have been the nature of family, poverty, simplicity of living, and spirituality. Dale Tucker is now retired and spends much of his time writing, cooking, and Nature-watching at his cottage in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. He shares a simple and happy life with his soulmate, Kathryn, and their Manx cat, Dill.

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