![]() ![]() In the same moment he describes how he cast off all his previous beliefs in favour of one truth. ![]() One night, aimlessly wandering in the hills above the city, he collapsed with exhaustion and slept. On waking he watched as a night heron flew over the water below, and this sight brought on an overwhelming sense of joy and transcendance. Then he fell ill with pneumonia, and after recovering physically, he became depressed. ![]() He had been studying in Yokohama under a professor he found inspiring, pursuing specialised research into a fungus that infected citrus trees-highly focused work in which he was “struck by how similar this minute world was to the great world of the infinite universe”. Written when Fukuoka was 61, the book begins with a brief account of why he turned his back on a career in plant pathology some thirty five years earlier. The One-Straw Revolution was Fukuoka’s first book and in it he sets out his beliefs about how to farm, live and eat. ![]()
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