Down with the Cities!

ot impossible that, because of the progress of science and technology, we will perpetuate ourselves by the ac

resources we squander, t

ate the atmosphere and the oceans,

d additives we ingest, the

not imperishable, that

with concrete, the greater

ey would not be used (in other words, tha

! And what is really important is that the opposite of

n, Ando Shoeki and t

edition published i

America, Inc. (T

s that all people grow their

ational scale, from the time we are in elementary school, and we h

Way of Heaven. The Way of Nature is a cycle with neither progress nor development; wild animals commit themselves to this cycle and live out their lives this

dioxide into oxygen for us). It is preposterous to abandon the agriculture of one's own country and invade another. Such arrogant corporate minds crowd the cities of the entire

the land is being sacrificed for the sake of today's prosperity, and in time we will find the survival of all things on Earth (includ

row enough on five ares to live. It is therefore possible for all 220 million Japanese to become direct cultivators.

n which Japanese men allegedly travel to Southeast Asian countr