This chapter gives a glimpse of the genesis of Fukuoka's thinking. More study is necessary to understand the experimental nature of his life. He spoke of do-nothing farming, but he didn't himself do-nothing. He deliberately made clay balls so birds would not eat seeds before they germinated. He put rice straw back on the land in a deliberately random way so the new crops could come up through. He spread daikon seeds wanting daikon's strong roots to till and to add biomass. He used legumes carefully, including tree legumes. Sometimes he would bury logs of tree legumes to add nitrogen above the nitrogen they added while alive. I think he was wanting humans to have a humble view of themselves and of their interventions. He wanted us to carefully look at consequences of our practices. Some American tribes see God as a first necessity because without a sense of God, some people will not eat or come in out of the cold. Indeed, in Western culture, anorexia can be one of the most difficult maladies to treat. My sense is that Fukuoka wanted humans to get a sense of accomplishment in caring for themselves and others, but he wanted our accomplishments to be as a reasonable and constructive part of nature.