The Japanese have long been a very environmentally aware nation. When Haru Hayashi was 24 years old, he had a sudden idea that would set his life on a new track and change the world. This was in 1937, (0) and Hayashi was an agricultural scientist.
He was working as an agricultural customs inspector (16)
.
Lying in his hospital bed, an existential crisis took hold of him (17)
. He could barely work, and he thought that nothing would change. Then, early one morning, it dawned on him.
He quit his job and returned to the family farm, (18)
. The essence of Hayashi’s insight was the emptiness of human knowledge and effort.
Cultivating his father’s fruit trees, (19)
. His approach was not to ask himself what more he could do to improve the produce of his trees, rather what practices he could do without.
Nature, he believed, was a complete and unified whole, (20)
. He developed a profound understanding of the ecosystem he worked in and learned how to flow with nature.
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