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Floating Worlds

D’après une œuvre de Okumura Masanobu

[thetwistedrope]

Properly speaking, nature is neither living nor dead. Nor is it small or large, weak or strong, feeble or thriving. It is those who believe only in science who call an insect either a pest or a predator and cry out that nature is a violent world of relativity and contradiction in which the strong feed on the weak. Notions of right and wrong, good and bad, are alien to nature. These are only distinctions invented by man. Nature maintained a great harmony without such notions, and brought forth the grasses and trees without the "helping" hand of man. The living and holistic biosystem that is nature cannot be dissected or resolved into its parts. Once broken down, it dies. Or rather, those who break off a piece of nature lay hold of something that is dead, and, unaware that what they are examining is no longer what they think it to be, claim to understand nature. Man commits a grave error when he collects data and findings piecemeal on a dead and fragmented nature and claims to "know," "use," or "conquer" nature. Because he starts off with misconceptions about nature and takes the wrong approach to understanding it, regardless of how rational his thinking, everything winds up all wrong. We must become aware of the insignificance of human knowledge and activity, and begin by grasping their uselessness and futility.

i’m 12 pages into this book and masanobu is not fucking around.

[yajifun]

恵比寿　奥村政信 画　1740年代中頃

RISD MUSEUM

[fujiwara57]

Uchiwa ou dansen 団扇 - éventail non repliable : “Magai otsuye” de

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政寅 (1761 - 1861).

[luciepichon]

Masanobu Fukuoka

[treasures-and-beauty]

A silver and enamel incense burner (koro) and cover by Masanobu, Meiji period (late 19th century)

[thetwistedrope]

First 40 pages of Masanobu’s book:

we should all be farmers

because all farmers are one with nature

even tho farmers had it bad, they had it great because they were one with nature

go be a farmer, quit contemplating existence

gmos are bad

they’re going to grow tomatoes on trees and mix raccoons with dogs for zoos and it will be awful

gmos are bad

quit trying to understand nature you can’t

farmers are amazing and truly the best way to live

science is bad mmkay

because we’ll use it to grow tomatoes on trees

gmos are bad because science

be a farmer and be one with nature

everything we grow using conventional means is lesser and bad

srsly, this bro coulda become an anti-vaxxer by how he talks, if only he wrote this thirty years later.

[thetwistedrope]

but they’re gonna mix raccoons with dogs @charizardismyhero

they’re gonna mix their DNA for zoos.