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“All of a sudden, everything changed to chemicals, carelessly, very quickly, within a few years. You looked at “development” as the chemical model, the conventional way, and you thought of what your grandparents did as backwards.

I think it was a doctor friend of ours who told us we had better not hold our children if we were spraying chemicals. So you begin wondering, “what is this?, we’ve always been told that this wasn’t anything bad, and it was allowed to be used”, and so on and so on, until it suddenly dawns on you and you say: “no, it’s the other way around, the progressive thing was what our grandparents used to do and we are the ones, today, doing it backwards.”


“Now it seems to be there’s a wave of young people returning to the countryside, returning to their roots, and hopefully they will stay, because it seems food is made of plastic, I don’t know, it would seem as if it would be done in factories; and the milk, well, to have milk, you’ve got to have cows, I mean, to bag the milk, first it has to come out from the cows, is not just ready in the tetra brick in the supermarket. It’s the same with the rest of the food. Now we’re used to having it moved from one continent to the other in a crazy way, without questioning it.”

“I like to teach young people who want to do organic agriculture, and I also like to teach them the respect for Nature, and normally the people who come here already feel such respect, otherwise they wouldn’t be here. But teach them also how one can live without depending too much from the external, consuming what you have nearby, what you have at home; to teach people not to be consumerist. The people who come from the city are very much used to consume, consume, consume, consume.”

“I am a farmer, but the Land deserves a better treatment than what we do to Her, even if we are “organic”. It’s alive, and in the Land there’s so much life that one doesn’t see, and sometimes you strike in the soil or plough, and you’re destroying and don’t even realize it. For example, the moss, it takes years to grow a few centimetres, and we just step on it in passing by and destroy it.
We think we’re the kings of Nature, the Human kind, so we don’t care what we destroy because it doesn’t matter.
Yes indeed Nature speaks, especially the plants. They’re grateful when you visit them, they know you’re around, they notice you and know it and thank you.
We should be here not to change the rhythm of Nature, but to follow it and make the most of such rhythm for our lives, without trying to change it. But we do change it and do with it our way, and Nature should be left to its own will. The rhythm of Nature is another one, not the one we want it to have.”