He saw that humans had become separated from nature and that our attempts to control or even understand all the complexities of life were Masanobu Fukuoka was born in 1914 in a small farming village on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan. He saw that all the "accomplishments" of human civilization are meaningless before the totality of nature. He had a vision in which something one might call true nature was revealed to him. He was educated in microbiology and worked as a soil scientist specializing in plant pathology, but at the age of twenty-five he began to have doubts about the "wonders of modern agriculture science." While recovering from a severe attack of pneumonia, Fukuoka experienced a moment of satori or personal enlightenment. Masanobu Fukuoka was born in 1914 in a small farming village on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan.
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